Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?
%% marc <gmane@auxbuss.com> writes:
>> You can run Emacs in X mode and it's basically text but with useful
>> windows stuff (you can select articles with the mouse, popup menus
>> for odd things, etc.)
m> GUI !=> mouse use
m> a lot of folk imply that, but I don't understand why.
Well, you never defined what you meant by GUI, so I used the definition
most folks assume.
Based on what you've said here I'm pretty confident Emacs is "GUI
enough" for you.
>> It's got more features than you can imagine, but you don't need to use
>> them to get started.
m> I have tried with Emacs before, but it's like learning Japanese,
m> where every word and piece of grammar is different - at least you
m> can have a guess at a French word.
Well, you can move with the arrow keys, page up/down keys, home/end
keys, use the menu bars until you learn the shortcuts, cut/paste with
the mouse, resize frames and buffers with the mouse, etc. I don't
really understand what people mean when they say things like the above:
you don't HAVE to learn ESC-META-ALT-CTL-SPC to use Emacs as an editor.
Maybe they mean Elisp... but you don't need to know any Lisp anymore to
use Emacs: there's even a point-clickety mouse-based customization mode
that lets you do customization without setq (etc.).
Anyway, my $0.02.
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