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Clemens Valens wrote:

> And then the crack about icons and the ability to read.
> This is of course utter nonsense, which can only come from
> somebody who has no understanding whatsoever of the average
> computer user. People who say this usually also claim that
> vi (or edlin) is a user friendly program. (Please note that
> I am not talking about vi's editing powers here, of which I
> have no knowledge at all, because I never managed to
> understand the program's interface.)
> The fact that you can do a text-only interface does not
> mean that it is the best way to do it (also for GUI).

    I agree.  I have been an avid user of DJGPP for years, and I use Bash/DOS
for what it's good for, but I have Win98 installed.  I use the GUI for what it's
good for and the prompt for what it's good for.  Lynx was a good idea, and I've
used it a few times when it was appropriate, but Netscape beats it hands-down.
I use Emacs for most of my code editing, but I prefer to use a Win32 version (or
an XWindows version) because they look better.  But even they don't do
everything, and I still need a wysiwyg editor like WordPerfect for my reports
and stuff.



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