Re: New Emacs with GTK!

[Kai Großjohann]

Niels Freimann <nfreimann@firemail.de> writes:

> However one thing must be clear: Any future development
> must place gtk into the very center. emacs must become fully 
> compatible with modern desktop environments. It must provide
> all the dialogs known to the people by other GUI programs, and 
> any relicts of the text mode past must disappear. Emacs must 
> look and feel like any other gnome, kde, or window, application. 

Please don't.  Emacs feels different, and that is part of its power.
Many applications use Ctrl-S to save, and Ctrl-F to search, but Emacs
uses C-s to search, and C-f is occupied by moving right one character.

I do not object to adding stuff to Emacs, and I do not object to
removing support for things that are no longer needed, but your
suggestion of radically changing Emacs is not good.  Emacs has been
Emacs since 1985 or so, and that's good.  I want Emacs to be Emacs in
2015, too!

In particular, text mode is a *very* useful thing.  Not everybody
needs it, perhaps, but those who do need it, need it badly.
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