Re: Great SWT Program

On Nov 24, 7:26 pm, blm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <blm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
1. Even then you have to read from one window and copy into the other.
Manually. Ouch.

Well, assuming you don't use the X11 clipboard. <shrug> I don't
consider this a showstopper. If you do -- no skin off my nose.

We're talking command-line options and the like. Copy-paste,
especially an unnaturally-behaving weird-key-bindings copy-paste,
won't save anything versus manual copying there. Either is less
convenient than just being able to click the option you want to select
it.

2. If you have the hardware capabilities to do this, you have the
hardware capabilities to use software with a much nicer user-
interface, thus obviating the need anyway.

"Nicer" being a matter of opinion. Or so some of us are claiming.

Ones who are clearly abnormal. It's like preferring to cook your meals
in a big, drafty, old place with no electricity, dim isolated spots of
candlelight, no refrigerator, and one rusted old wrought-iron wood-
burning cook-stove instead of a clean modern kitchen with sleek
appliances including not only the obligatory refrigerator but also a
microwave oven, a proper enclosed convective oven, stove burners and
grill, coffee-maker, dishwasher, toaster-oven, and of course large
fluorescent light panels in the ceiling and a sink with hot and cold
running water.

Roughing it in a decayed old mansion is, perhaps, adventurous.
However, it is normally some sort of vacation or weekend fun, rather
than something one does while actually trying to get real work
accomplished. There seem to be precisely two sets of people hereabouts
that apparently like to live a decades-out-of-date lifestyle of one
sort or another and eschew everything invented since some particular
date, not merely for recreation but as a whole lifestyle. One of
those groups is comprised of unix nerds and particularly emacs and vi
users. The other group being the Amish.

That should have been "not entirely convinced". Apparently I don't
always proofread posts as carefully as I might. My bad.

:P
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