From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Phil Carmody Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs's popularity Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:36:18 +0200 Organization: Saunalahti Customer Message-ID: <87r6482t6l.fsf@nonospaz.fatphil.org> References: <2103fd36-c5cd-4e8d-a74f-34697a369934@a26g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <87skop8cc7.fsf@iki.fi> <20081215210907.GB3848@groll.co.za> <87ljuh86il.fsf@iki.fi> <878wqg4alp.fsf@nonospaz.fatphil.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229431394 24730 80.91.229.12 (16 Dec 2008 12:43:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:43:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 16 13:44:20 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LCZHO-0000dO-J4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:44:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32946 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LCZGC-0002jd-JQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Dec 2008 07:42:48 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!feeder.erje.net!feeder2.news.saunalahti.fi!reader1.news.saunalahti.fi!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:XPfnUZv91voof9dHgINXjd0iTXc= Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 83.143.57.195 Original-X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@saunalahti.com Original-X-Trace: reader1.news.saunalahti.fi 1229430878 83.143.57.195 (Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:34:38 EET) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 14:34:38 EET Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:165352 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:60684 Archived-At: "Juanma Barranquero" writes: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:34, Phil Carmody > wrote: > >> In which case, why shouldn't we emacs proponents look on them with a sense >> of shame? More than 3 times slower - is that not shameful? > > No, because Emacs is not optimized for that kind of use pattern. Opening files? Phil -- I tried the Vista speech recognition by running the tutorial. I was amazed, it was awesome, recognised every word I said. Then I said the wrong word ... and it typed the right one. It was actually just detecting a sound and printing the expected word! -- pbhj on /.