From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Cthun Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs? Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:02:35 -0500 Organization: Ph'nglui mglw'nfah Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn Message-ID: References: <1578157c-17a0-41ea-9420-9330f68b10fe@glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com> <87ei6zpbor.fsf@rapttech.com.au> <2p8vx4550z.fsf@shell.xmission.com> <2pwrkkbd82.fsf@shell.xmission.com> <2pk4gjbgv7.fsf@shell.xmission.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298994492 16595 80.91.229.12 (1 Mar 2011 15:48:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2011 15:48:12 +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 Mar 01 16:48:09 2011 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PuRny-0000zT-4A for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:48:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39647 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PuRkO-0004mB-GS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Mar 2011 10:44:24 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsgate.cistron.nl!newsgate.news.xs4all.nl!194.109.133.84.MISMATCH!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed5.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!feeder.news-service.com!94.75.214.39.MISMATCH!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs,comp.lang.lisp Original-Lines: 69 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: qkZalEcIvVS+i6s6rIUaAw.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: MicroPlanet-Gravity/3.0.4 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:185485 comp.emacs:101198 comp.lang.lisp:300156 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:79641 Archived-At: On 01/03/2011 9:21 AM, Mario Lassnig wrote: > On 3/1/11 3:05 PM, Cthun wrote: >> Saying version control is for novels is like saying >> the purpose of Usenet is pointless bickering, Janney; saying it's for >> source code is like saying the purpose of Usenet is for discussion. Your >> mistake is rather ironic, though, considering your own considerable >> recent contributions to the misuse of Usenet for pointless bickering, >> Janney. > > What does your classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim have to do > with Lisp, Cthun? What does your classic erroneous presupposition have to do with Lisp, Lassnig? >> Plain, unformatted ASCII text, Janney, which is hardly useful for >> writing novels and articles. Novels tend to contain italics and other >> formatting here and there, Janney, whereas articles frequently contain >> scientific and mathematical symbols that do not exist in ASCII or >> sometimes even Unicode, and tables, graphs, charts, and formatted >> equations that cannot be represented nicely using a grid of characters. > > What does your classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim have to do > with Lisp, Cthun? What does your classic erroneous presupposition have to do with Lisp, Lassnig? >> Occasionally hitting control-S and backing up your >> files regularly is a lot easier than learning Emacs, Janney. > > What does your classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim have to do > with Lisp, Cthun? What does your classic erroneous presupposition have to do with Lisp, Lassnig? >> Version control systems are inherently complex and >> inherently client/server oriented, Janney; if they weren't they'd be >> useless for their primary purpose, which is to enable collaborative >> software development, Janney. > > What does your classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim have to do > with Lisp, Cthun? What does your classic erroneous presupposition have to do with Lisp, Lassnig? >> It's rather less work than struggling to learn, and later struggling to >> remember, those "few key strokes in Emacs", Janney. Not to mention the >> sprained wrists from tying your hands into pretzels trying to hit seven >> different modifier keys simultaneously, Janney. Emacs is not a text >> editor, Janney, it is a keyboard-implemented version of the game >> "Twister". > > What does your classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim have to do > with Lisp, Cthun? What does your classic erroneous presupposition have to do with Lisp, Lassnig? >> And it remains true that using SVN to "develop" a >> novel is like using a hammer to insert a screw, Janney. > > What does your classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim have to do > with Lisp, Cthun? What does your classic erroneous presupposition have to do with Lisp, Lassnig?