From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brian Elmegaard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly Date: 19 Mar 2005 14:41:11 +0100 Message-ID: References: <874qf8d3cy.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111239861 21483 80.91.229.2 (19 Mar 2005 13:44:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:44:21 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 19 14:44:21 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCeFS-0005Lu-H4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 14:44:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCeW9-0002HT-RM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 09:01:29 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uninett.no!news.net.uni-c.dk!sunsite.dk!dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.166.154.230 Original-X-Trace: DXC=hgAm\9^CQGnCf4eYcI3F5hYSB=nbEKnkkH]K5?fEb4BhB5AQgEXWLcmeWR8?[FEXNfG`OJE8Gd13iTCR4]c=VMcf Original-X-Complaints-To: staff@sunsite.dk Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129386 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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 X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24941 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24941 "Eli Zaretskii" writes: > Please be specific; slogans are not useful when you are criticizing a Four fundamental issues would be: [1] Possibility for horizontal scroll, [2] sizeable and cascadable windows instead of buffers inside the same frame, [3] heavy extension of the icon toolbars and [4] distinction between 'open' and 'new' file. Keys which would make emacs more "normal": M-F4 for exiting would be one. C-TAB for frame/window/buffer (depending on changes according to [2]) switching. regards, -- Brian (remove the sport for mail) http://www.et.dtu.dk/staff/be/be.html