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Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?



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 <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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