Re: Great SWT Program

In article <9cf49d0c-e479-4840-8202-28521c1440ea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<bbound@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Nov 30, 9:18 am, b...@xxxxxxxxxxx (Bent C Dalager) wrote:

Oh, great, MORE random standards-violating behavior, and again deeply
embedded enough to be unfixable by merely rebinding keys. Can't really
say I'm surprised, though.

Hehe - "oh, great, MORE random imagined standards" :-)

(Or do you actually have a reference this time? Thought not.)

Baloney. It's evident to anyone who so much as touches any of the
cruftware you're pushing. If I go file-save in Windows I see a list of
existing files. Plus it prompts me whether to overwrite one if I pick
a colliding name. If I go file-save in just about any old text-mode
app I get a "Enter filename here:" prompt with no indication of the
existing contents of the save directory, or even what directory it's
figuring to save it in.

You get a file list if you want it, of course.

If I type a name that happens to collide with
an existing file, fifty-fifty odds it just quietly overwrites the old
file without a peep of warning or even a notice after the fact that it
did so.

Actually, the odds are 100% that emacs will ask you whether you want
to overwrite or not. The prompt looks something like:
File `~/tmp.txt' exists; overwrite? (y or n)

The niche you depend on for your daily professional needs is "elitist
old-skool-unix geek"? Because that's all emacs proficiency is required
for. That and "emacs training" anyway.

[Bent tacitly admits that his professional needs include an elitist
attitude]

Ah, no, you did.

That's nice to know. Thanks. :P

But I'm going to let you live in blissful self-deception :-)

You keep saying that. Has it ever done you any good?

Since you're too stubborn and brain-damaged to recognize defeat and
give up, unfortunately it hasn't done all that it should have.

Ah, you admit that your tactic has turned out to be a complete
failure?

Cheers,
Bent D
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