From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: delete-selection-mode Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:25:58 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ocitw2dl.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <201003130001.o2D01FFQ003489@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> <87vdd1yqe4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87eijjzrkd.fsf_-_@mail.jurta.org> <20100317143519.GB4381@muc.de> <8739zy68n2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87zl261yta.fsf@telefonica.net> <87sk7y4rdv.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1268861182 32094 80.91.229.12 (17 Mar 2010 21:26:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:26:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 17 22:26:15 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1Ns0kp-0006pJ-A7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:26:15 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57016 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ns0ko-0007AX-OI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:26:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ns0kj-00077d-2b for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:26:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51203 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ns0kh-00074j-Q8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:26:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ns0kg-0004BB-9d for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:26:07 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.183]:4346 helo=ironport2-out.pppoe.ca) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ns0ka-0004AT-7c; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:26:00 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AvsEAE/loEtFpZMX/2dsb2JhbACbCHS5U4R2BIsV X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.51,261,1267419600"; d="scan'208";a="58468558" Original-Received: from 69-165-147-23.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.165.147.23]) by ironport2-out.pppoe.ca with ESMTP; 17 Mar 2010 17:25:58 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id A264F8CC4; Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:25:58 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87sk7y4rdv.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:36:44 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.93 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:122111 Archived-At: > At one point of time you will have to decide either arguing that Emacs > provides obvious benefits over competing products, or not. Compared to things like Eclipse, I see the following significant advantages: - does not impose a particular workflow or combination of tools. That's it. To me there are of course many more advantages (e.g. it also works in a tty; I can read my email with it reusing the familiar and powerful editing features; lightweight (who'd have thought!?); ...). Stefan