Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 00:08:12 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: icons (was: FreeBSD keyboard) Message-ID: <199607152208.AAA18178@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.94.960715115825.5534C-100000@Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu> from John Fieber at "Jul 15, 96 12:35:57 pm"
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As John Fieber wrote: > 1) It would be difficult to design menus worse than those that > come with emacs. :-) > 2) Are the control-shift-alt-meta-hyper-x r control-meta-b > commands really that efficient? Bringing it back to Probably. However, one of the commands that is used very often is C-h a. If you don't have problems in typing quickly, you will often find it easier to M-x command-na<return>, since this is what you can better memorize. Emacs makes this working style rather easy to use. Other programs might work with fewer keystrokes, but i think the total amount of time to express the same is roughly equivalent. > 3) Emacs has too many functions! ;-) Yes. :-) But don't forget: Emacs ain't an editor. Emacs is a Lisp interpreter that happens to have some specific hook for editing text files. If it was not that quite a bunch of keys were bound to the function ``self-insert-command'', you wouldn't even get the idea it might be an editor. ;-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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