Re: Incremental search in vim Re: Great SWT Program
- From: nebulous99@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 01:47:55 -0000
On Nov 1, 2:13 pm, Lasse Reichstein Nielsen <l...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Emacs is a GUI app in much the way an Edsel with cardboard wings glued
onto it is an aeroplane. :P
Nice joke, but you ignored the point.
That's because there was no point.
And the analogy holds quite well in fact -- those GUI ports of Unix
text-mode tools never have a proper GUI design; it's always apparent
that the GUI is a) an imitation of a Windows UI that, on close
inspection, is clearly not genuine and b) an afterthought to the
design rather than the app having been designed from the ground up to
be operated by a GUI.
Emacs is a GUI application in the same way Notepad is a GUI application.
Except in many ways that are important, such as the GUI conforming
completely to GUI-users' expectations regarding the semantics of
various widgets and behaviors ranging from scrollbars to selections.
They *never* quite get it right, because it wasn't written from the
ground up as a native Windows application, nor Mac, nor Java Swing.
Well, probably a little more, since Emacs can actually show images when
run on a display with that capability.
A cute hack, no doubt, but it does nothing to disprove the above.
[snip remainder including an implied insult]
None of the nasty things you imply about me are the least bit true.
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