From: sl AT psycode DOT com (sl)
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To: "djgpp AT delorie DOT com" <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 00:03:40 -0500 (EST)
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Subject: Re: EMACS is superb
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On Mon, 22 Mar 1999 08:55:38, Ralph Proctor wrote:

>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.

	Actually ;) We have to use EMACS at school in our linux labs (and I
use it at home whenever I have to do anything in Linux) .. While I find it is
the only half-decent editor for Linux, I still hate it quite a bit ;) I find
it more berable in xwindows, but then I hate the fact that I'm stranded using
the mouse so much for pulldown menu and simple things like "alt-f" for the
"FILE" pulldown menu don't exist :O

Gili