From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Espen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: evidence: nano(1) is *NOT* better than Emacs Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 10:17:51 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <87egt4ulg4.fsf@debian.uxu> <877fyvh97x.fsf@debian.uxu> <87h9xyn8fk.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1416237679 8724 80.91.229.3 (17 Nov 2014 15:21:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 15:21:19 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 17 16:21:13 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XqO75-0005Ty-9R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 16:21:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48378 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XqO74-000121-SA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Nov 2014 10:21:10 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="61a1e09a5dd16679b5767d77eb99504d"; logging-data="4509"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/G81dv1xlURpPWnEjfzjwvngVOcIufeC0=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VQrJ++rnuuOF9U0sCEPB6GZWotU= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:208716 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100994 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > Dan Espen writes: > >> If you like the brighter higher contrast colors, I'd >> agree Nano looks better. >> >> The colors are easily fixed. > > Yes, I know you can change the colors in Emacs :) > >> If you don't like 2 lines of your screen being taken >> up by a display of shortcuts, Nano looses. > > Unfortunately not. > > Just because you can configure things in Emacs and > spend a lifetime doing so doesn't mean other editors > are completely unconfigurable. Try this: > > nano --nohelp --morespace > > Damn! nano wins again! Pardon my saying so, but that's ridiculous. In the case of Emacs, you rule out any changes. Then you make changes to Nano and claim victory. -- Dan Espen