Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?
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2005/10/19, Hendrik Boom <hendrik@pooq.com>:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:08:29AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> > furufuru@ccsr.u-tokyo.ac.jp 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
>
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