Re: "like other editors" [

[ken]

On 10/03/2011 12:02 PM Richard Riley wrote:
> 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?

You're missing the point entirely.  Re-read my original post in this thread.