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Re: "like other editors" [
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Richard Riley |
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Re: "like other editors" [ |
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Mon, 03 Oct 2011 18:02:59 +0200 |
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ken <gebser@mousecar.com> writes:
> On 10/03/2011 09:41 AM Suvayu Ali wrote:
>> Hi Ken,
>>
>> On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:18:11 -0400
>> ken <gebser@mousecar.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Secondly, there are places in the world where people haven't ever
>>> used Windows; instead, their first and only experience with computers
>>> is with Linux. What sense can it make to them that emacs' behavior
>>> is changed simply to mimic some other editor they've never seen or
>>> used?
>>
>> You wrongly assumed by modern editors I was talking about Windows
>> editors[1],
>
> No, I wasn't assuming you were talking about Word. Since you didn't say which
> editor you were talking about, I just picked Word as a foil. If you re-read
> my
> post, you'll see on my first reference to Word I preceded it by "e.g.",
> implying
> the same thereafter.
Dont you feel using Word (Windows only non programmers editor) was a
little far fetched considering the plethora of cross platform
programmers editors including and not limited to emacs and vi? Never
mind eclipse etc as well as all the FOSS Gnu/Linux stuff like gedit etc?
Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete, Suvayu Ali, 2011/10/03
Re: "like other editors" [was: Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete], Andreas Röhler, 2011/10/03
Re: "like other editors" [, Richard Riley, 2011/10/03
Re: "like other editors" [, Richard Riley, 2011/10/03
Re: "like other editors" [, Ian Zimmerman, 2011/10/03
Re: "like other editors" [, Rasmus, 2011/10/03
Re: "like other editors" [, ken, 2011/10/03
Re: "like other editors" [was: Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete], Richard Stallman, 2011/10/03
Re: "like other editors" [was: Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete], Jeremiah Dodds, 2011/10/04
Re: "like other editors" [was: Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete], ken, 2011/10/04