From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: diff-mode
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 05:11:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1PSRr9-0005aA-8r@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <886669ef-277b-4056-97e0-4580e90ce614@k25g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> (message from Elena on Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:43:10 -0800 (PST))
> From: Elena <egarrulo@gmail.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:43:10 -0800 (PST)
>
> On Dec 13, 11:22 pm, Andrea Crotti <andrea.crott...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > As I discussed with a collegue, one of the problem of emacs are the
> > non-inviting defaults.
>
> This is never going to be solved. Emacs lacks the resources to pay
> for a team dedicated to usability issues, more so if you think about
> how many platforms it runs on. Moreover, it is maintained by advanced
> users, which are unlikely to understand the needs of beginners.
That's not true. Usability is quite high on the developers' agenda.
If you report usability problems as bugs, they will be handled.
> I applaud your effort to use Emacs for diffs. I gave up very quickly
> and to this day I still stick to WinMerge.
Feel free to use LoseMerge, Ediff beats it any time with both hands
behind its back. You gave up too quickly.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-14 10:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-12 11:44 diff-mode Andrea Crotti
2010-12-12 15:09 ` diff-mode Drew Adams
2010-12-12 17:59 ` diff-mode Andrea Crotti
2010-12-12 18:14 ` diff-mode Drew Adams
2010-12-13 23:22 ` diff-mode Andrea Crotti
2010-12-13 23:35 ` diff-mode Drew Adams
2010-12-14 10:04 ` diff-mode Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-14 10:13 ` diff-mode Leo
2010-12-14 11:07 ` diff-mode Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-14 14:40 ` diff-mode Andrea Crotti
2010-12-14 15:22 ` diff-mode Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.4.1292337645.794.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-12-14 14:57 ` diff-mode Mario Lassnig
[not found] ` <mailman.2.1292282577.11279.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-12-14 8:43 ` diff-mode Elena
2010-12-14 10:11 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2010-12-14 10:16 ` diff-mode Leo
[not found] ` <mailman.1.1292321505.27999.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-12-14 13:40 ` diff-mode Elena
2010-12-14 14:57 ` diff-mode Andrea Crotti
2010-12-14 15:48 ` diff-mode Drew Adams
2010-12-14 15:57 ` diff-mode Andrea Crotti
2010-12-14 16:06 ` diff-mode Drew Adams
2010-12-14 15:45 ` diff-mode Richard Riley
[not found] ` <mailman.5.1292338693.794.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-12-14 15:35 ` diff-mode Elena
2010-12-14 16:07 ` diff-mode Eli Zaretskii
2010-12-14 18:20 ` diff-mode Andrea Crotti
[not found] ` <mailman.7.1292342885.25302.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-12-14 16:22 ` diff-mode Elena
2010-12-14 18:51 ` diff-mode Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.5.1292352715.11323.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-12-14 19:48 ` diff-mode Elena
2010-12-14 15:46 ` diff-mode Richard Riley
2010-12-15 14:12 ` diff-mode José A. Romero L.
2010-12-15 15:00 ` diff-mode Elena
2010-12-15 16:28 ` diff-mode José A. Romero L.
2010-12-15 16:46 ` diff-mode José A. Romero L.
2010-12-15 16:50 ` diff-mode José A. Romero L.
[not found] <mailman.3.1292154786.23431.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-12-12 12:46 ` diff-mode rusi
2010-12-12 18:02 ` diff-mode Andrea Crotti
[not found] ` <mailman.4.1292177110.18751.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-12-13 4:52 ` diff-mode rusi
2010-12-12 18:23 ` diff-mode Elena
2010-12-12 18:26 ` diff-mode Elena
2010-12-15 4:47 ` diff-mode Stefan Monnier
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