Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/03/22/10:12:10
Please don't start another holly war.
Is obvious that different people likes different editors and that's why there
are tons of editors.
SET
> At 02:47 AM 3/22/99 -0500, you wrote:
>
> > How does it make sense that in order to record a macro you have to
> >type in approx 3 "shortcut keys" and in order to use the macro you have to
> >type 2 "shortcut keys" .. there's nothing short/easy about them.. I highly
> >dislike how EMACS uses ctrl-this or that for EVERY key.. it's UGLY
> >
> >Gili
>
> What you noticed comes on when you are working EMACS during the first few
> minutes or hour or two or during the early learning stage. Later when you
> tend to forget about the editor and focus on the work you find that
> combinations like Ctrl-x, Alt-x (Meta-X), Ctrl-Alt and others are done
> without thought. Now it is true that there will always have to be some
> conscientious work to be done with the other hand, but in many cases this
> is not such a bad thing. And the type-in command and macro repertoire you
> can accumulate is unlimited--so some pause probably is good.
>
> If you would pick out a project, maybe a small one, perhaps a text that
> needs fixing up, or some code you want to do over, and do the job, I don't
> think you would look at EMACS as you stated above.
>
> Of course if you haven't even gone through the rudiments covered by the
> tutorial, then nothing you observe one way or another has any meaning.
>
> Do one job with EMACS then complain.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Ralph
>
>
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