Re: [Texmacs-dev] Mathematics as a drawing; clipboard; a motto

[Joris van der Hoeven]

> > That way everybody get their expected behaviour, plus X11 users have 2
> > clipboards at their fingertips, which is very handy.
> 
> Well, I think that would really be most confusing, especially for GNU
> users who are used to some awful mix of conventions *using the same
> clipboard*.

I agree.

> Joris say "the convention I like should be the default" and I say "the
> convention used everywhere the GUI is not a mess should be used, and
> your personal preference should be the default". But it does not look
> like I am going to convince him.

You are deliberately deforming what I say.

> > Absolutely unrelated, I want to state that one of the reasons for me to
> > use TeXmacs is that it is so pleasurable. I insist that a motto might be
> > useful for TeXmacs, either to counter the unfortunate confusion of the
> > name it bears or else to promote it better. As I think that the
> > aesthetical component dominates so much the motivations of both
> > developers and users of TeXmacs, I suggest using
> > 
> > TeXmacs. Writing is a pleasure.
> > 
> > I hope this will attract many people to TeXmacs, stressing that TeXmacs
> > is to conventional wordprocessors what a stylographic pen is to a biro.
> 
> Well... that is kind of a salesman slogan... Yet I like the idea of
> putting the idea of fun in control.
> 
> The topic in #texmacs is currently "Word processing for real geeks".
> That is tailored to the public of OpenProjects.net :-)

I prefer Alvaro's proposal.