On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:08:29AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
