Re: Great SWT Program

In article <1194392799.282185.91090@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<bbound@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Nov 3, 7:16 pm, b...@xxxxxxxxxxx (Bent C Dalager) wrote:
If you are incapable of remembering five seconds back, and also
incapable of glancing at the status bar to see which mode you are in -
yeah, you're up *** creek without a paddle.

I don't remember any useful status bar information in emacs.

Mine currently says
--1-:**-F1 .article.6075 (Fundamental)--L23--Top---

Sometimes
it showed something cryptic, like "M-x:",

That would be the mini-buffer. It is just below the status bar.

but no English mode name of
any sort.

The status bar above tells me I'm in Fundamental mode. If I put emacs into c++-mode, it becomes
something like:
--1-:**-F1 .article.6075 (C++ Abbrev)--L35-- 7%--

Usually if something like that appeared I just tried to back
out with esc, which didn't always work, and when it did usually made
emacs complain at the same time, e.g. "M-x ESC ESC: no such command"
or something along those lines.

That's because you must use C-g to back out of things.

And this still does not prove that superior "GUI" applications /do/
exist - only that they /might/ in some possible universe.

Thus the argument boils down to your claiming, purely subjectively,
that current GUI apps are "not good enough" in some sense, and being
unable to furnish any reasonable argument or evidence to support your
claim.

There is therefore no point in your continuing it.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident . . ." :-)

Alternatively, it's only in niche circumstances that it offers any
real benefits over normal "incremental-find-next" search.

And of course, so long as this niche includes general text editing, I
shall remain a happy puppy :-)

It does not, however, include "general text editing", except perhaps
for certain memorization savants. It mainly includes "navigating a
text file in a GUI-less environment while possessing a prodigious
ability to exactly memorize large volumes of ASCII character
sequences", which is quite narrow.

That doesn't sound like an editor I would like to use.

Cheers,
Bent D
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