From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Time to throw away my LOVE - Emacs ? Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 07:30:47 +0900 Organization: FusionGOL - Global Online Japan Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87fz95d6nc.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> References: <7e4qpod2db.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> <40c49fc7$1@news.012.net.il> <87ise3t36i.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> <4rq3ac.q5.ln@acm.acm> <40c5bd4c$1@news.012.net.il> <40c5da09$1@news.012.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1088534984 15472 80.91.224.253 (29 Jun 2004 18:49:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 18:49:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 29 20:49:36 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BfNfk-0002et-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 20:49:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BfNhQ-0007F0-1L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:51:20 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.news.ucla.edu!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!jpix!nntp.gol.com!203.216.70.8.MISMATCH!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: yokohama2-61-203-152-249.ap.0038.net Original-X-Trace: nnrp.gol.com 1086733847 15688 61.203.152.249 (8 Jun 2004 22:30:47 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@gol.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2004 22:30:47 +0000 (UTC) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Cancel-Lock: sha1:6iGlsCRAOaDe7ftVp1ZGbVp5/NE= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:123701 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:19069 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:19069 "Barak Zalstein" writes: > I don't think that this is seeing things from the wrong angle, when merely > keeping up with changing standards and interfaces of default common tools > demands continuous and active effort from an Emacs user . This is true to an extent, but note that often modern GUI tools are _so_ bad outside their narrow focus that one could be more productive using something like emacs, _despite_ the incompatibility. -Miles -- `To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems' --Homer J. Simpson