From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mathias Dahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Efficient Emacs usage? Date: 26 Nov 2004 08:44:06 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87vfbx0zuc.fsf@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> <87llcr9b0w.fsf@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1101455146 18484 80.91.229.6 (26 Nov 2004 07:45:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2004 07:45:46 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 26 08:45:42 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CXanW-0007Un-00 for ; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 08:45:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CXawl-00023b-BZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Nov 2004 02:55:15 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de aAZFLH9tN9liQ0JiUlNW9wRAHdsmXeSEei/TYa/joX4d7oqTQp User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:126933 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:22335 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:22335 Phillip Lord writes: > Lee> I've tried it and I hate it. It's too > Lee> _distracting_. I can't write with such a > Lee> distracting feature. > >> > >> > >> Distracting? From someone who uses fully justified > >> text with fixed width fonts? > > Mathias> Different people find different things > Mathias> distracting. > > > True. Justified text is, however, the work of the > devil. It's makes normal variable width text harder to > read, although it does look nicer on page. With fixed > width fonts, you don't even get that advantage. I agree and think is is ugly, or at least hard to read. It is a cool feature in Emacs when you do need it though, but lucky for us it is not the default filling style. /Mathias