Falcolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Jun 22, 11:28 am, Robert Uhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> It's Mac OS and Windows which are inconsistent. Emacs has been >> around since they were mere glimmers in the eye of Jobs & Gates... > > Inconsistent? I would have to disagree. They changed paradigms - > terminal text based interfaces to GUIs. You wouldn't expect a piece > of software built for a terminal to be backwards compatibility to > punch card interfaces, would you?
You are aware that the ubiquitous standard terminal width of 80 columns has been chosen to match the 80-column punch card standard? > Why would a GUI based program limit itself to functionality as > defined by a terminal application? Emacs uses variable width fonts, can deal with a larger-than-8bit variety of GUI-based input events and can display images. Take a look at the screen shots for preview-latex <URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/preview-latex.html> illustrating WYSIWYG LaTeX editing in Emacs windows. So what is your problem? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list