On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 07:07:13PM +0200, DebianTux23 wrote: > https://www.scientificlinux.org/
What on earth does this link have to do with the discussion you quoted below? -- hendrik ( Not to mantion how confused the layout of this message has become because top and bottom posting have been mixed ) > > 2005/10/19, Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:08:29AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > programming. (One important aspect of that kind of integration > > > > is that you don't have to remember different shortcut keys, such as > > > > C-a for jumping to the top of the line, C-g for interrupting, > > > > and C-s for searching.) > > > > > > Which is why every other piece of software pretty much does it the > > > other > > > 'way around. IE, they call your text editor of choice. Far more elegant > > > to > > > program a mail client and call the text editor than to program the mail > > > client > > > in the text editor. What happens when you want to switch text editors? > > > Whoops, have to switch mail clients too. > > > > To be fair, emacs was written in tha ancient days before graphical user > > iterfaces, when all you had was a single serial connection to a single > > command-line interpreter. No mechanism even for multiple virtual CLI > > consoles. So using its multiple text buffers in split-screen more was > > a godsend, opeionc shells within emacs buffers was wonderful, and being > > able to use things like gnus was a great convenience. emacs *was* the > > GUI of the text-only console. > > > > The world has changed since then. Ancient design decisions go obsolete. > > I'm using emacs inside my mail reader, instead of the other way around. > > > > -- hendrik > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
