Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date)

[Andy Piper]

At 01:40 PM 4/19/02 +0200, Per Abrahamsen wrote:
> Dialog boxes are so 1980's.

Well so is Windows, but the advantage is that everyone knows how it works - 
you can get up to speed quickly on an application because everything works 
the way you expect. I'm not saying dialog boxes aren't clumsy, inefficient 
etc, etc - but for a bunch of users its what they expect. So it seems to me 
the principle of least surprise applies here.

Not that your points about making the minibuffer more accessible aren't 
good ones. I think the minibuffer is one of emacs' greatest strengths.

amdu