Re: [Gnome-devtools] Emacs

[Chris Phelps <chicane reninet com>]

Masatake YAMATO wrote:

> I see. But above reason is not interested to me.
> What I want to know is that anti-emacs reason of people who knows the
> advantages of emacs:)

As Mark said, we dont make our editors for those who know the advantages of Emacs,
we make them for the average programmer who needs to be able to get things done
without learning a scripting language and reading 20 pages of keybindigns just to
start it up.

> > 2. I find the Emacs buffer system to be ugly and a pain in the ass.
> I'd like to know this item more.

I am refering to Emacs'  use of "buffers" as its mdi...I think its ugly and a bad
design (although I dont blame the authors, since it has been around since before I
was born I think)

> Yes but, now we can get larger size disk and ram.
> If I can use really intelligent editor, I'll pay for disk and ram.
> I use my computer for writing programs, so if I lack disk and ram
> space, I'll remove gnome first. If one uses ones computer for other
> than writing programs, one will remove emacs before remove gnome.

In case the rest of you havent noticed, average users get pissed off when they
have to upgrade their computers every year to keep up with new software. This is a
Bad Think (tm) IMNSHO.

<rant>
The attitude that "Emacs rules and everything else is an inferior piece of shit"
frankly pisses me off. Everyone has their own likes and dislikes, and not
tayloring to them is where companies like Microsoft have gone wrong. What power
users like ourselves think is easy to learn, may not be (and probably isn't) quite
so simple for everyone else, so we have to keep them in mind when developing our
software. If we fail to do this, the Open Source bandwagon is just gonna tip over
and be abandoned like the fad that the software giants have always said it is. I
dont want this to happen and I doubt any of you do either, so give it a break with
the Im Better Than You Are shit, and try and help people out a little.
</rant>

Later,

Chicane

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