From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:37:56 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: References: <874qf8d3cy.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> <87acozbp0v.fsf@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> <7ek6o2w7bl.fsf@ada2.unipv.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111409792 6996 80.91.229.2 (21 Mar 2005 12:56:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 12:56:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 21 13:56:32 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDMSI-0000PM-3z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:56:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDMjN-0000Zn-MB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 08:14:05 -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!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-X-Trace: individual.net BjH+5O0hjnONGDGS9PBPGgsh4i38P31WSV9biHv85CgsMv2IHa X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:IR+GaazS84j1wprygUow8d5PalE= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129519 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:25071 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25071 Brian Elmegaard writes: > Thien-Thi Nguyen writes: > >> Brian Elmegaard writes: >> >> > Me too. But, the students I force to use emacs for simulation >> > (http://www.et.dtu.dk/software/dna) don't like it. >> >> if this software produces graphs or other images, you can display >> them in an emacs buffer. that is all the UI you will need to trick >> students into enjoying the fast edit cycle. > > You are right. BTW, could I build a UI with drag'n'drop > possibilities inside emacs? CVS Emacs understands the "drop" part of the X Drag'n'drop specification. Drop files in a dired buffer, and they get moved there. Drop them in most other windows, and they get opened. Of course, _inside_ of Emacs is all up to your Elisp programming skills. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum