Re: Great SWT Program

In article <1193889543.494148.122890@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Owen Jacobson <angrybaldguy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
bbo...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Oct 31, 8:02 pm, Lars Enderin <lars.ende...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
If all you want to do is write email, you don't need emacs, but of
course you can use emacs as an email client if you wish. Using emacs for
plain text editing does not require more training than using Notepad.

To lay this to rest, I've done some of the research you refuse to[0]
[1]. The following screenshots were taken on a fresh install of
Ubuntu Desktop 7.10, the most recent release, installed in VMWare.
Anyone can repeat my experiments, either on VMWare or on real
hardware. Hopefully this is suitably in the spirit of the scientific
method for you. All links in this post to bast.lionsanctuary.net are
of type image/png or text/html (HEAD them yourself) and of reasonable
size, and contain no advertisements. The images, since they are of
GPL, Mozilla, and BSD-licensed software, are released into the public
domain under the appropriate fair-use laws. Do not take this post
internally.

I applaud your taking the trouble to do some actual experiments
and make the results available. I'm unsurprised by the response
you got from Twisted/Nebulous/Bbound; I'm not completely sure from
his reply that he even looked at your screenshots. Perhaps someone
else will find them interesting or useful.

[ snip ]

[0] Any takers for vi? I'm even less of a vi user than I am an emacs
expert.

I may be the only vi(m) user still attempting to participate
here, and -- nah, I briefly considered taking you up on this
suggestion, but then I considered the likely response from
T/N/B and couldn't be bothered.

For anyone who's curious about what vim looks like -- its graphical
version anyway -- there are some screenshots at

http://www.vim.org/others.php

[1] This isn't as insane as it sounds, since I've been meaning to try
out 7.10 anyways.

Good. Otherwise, what a waste of your time ....

[ snip ]

--
B. L. Massingill
ObDisclaimer: I don't speak for my employers; they return the favor.
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