From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 12:09:00 -0500 Organization: Bell Sympatico Message-ID: <87fyyrzhqt.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> References: <874qf8d3cy.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111252992 22380 80.91.229.2 (19 Mar 2005 17:23:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 17:23:12 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 19 18:23:12 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DChfJ-000371-4O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:23:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DChw2-0004HV-BH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 12:40:26 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wns14feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Mzk5Oq92cDbx3k4yF4PAepzcDVk= Original-Lines: 10 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.68.217.141 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca Original-X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1111252141 67.68.217.141 (Sat, 19 Mar 2005 12:09:01 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 12:09:01 EST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129413 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24968 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24968 > Four fundamental issues would be: [1] Possibility for horizontal > scroll, [2] sizeable and cascadable windows instead of buffers inside > the same frame, [3] heavy extension of the icon toolbars and [4] > distinction between 'open' and 'new' file. These are pretty fuzzy. Could you describe more specifically the kind of situations/problems/solutions you're thinking of? Stefan