Re: Great SWT Program

On Dec 3, 5:33 pm, 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 - [misparaphrases me]

We are not amused.

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.

Depends on the app. If you can, you have to press an extra key or ten
to see it. What key? Who knows! Different in each app, documented in
some obscure corner of some enormous monolithic wodge of text with
giant paragraphs and no hyperlinks that seems to have to be navigated
with space to page down and no way to page back up if you overshoot,
and certainly not obvious just by looking at the filename prompt.
Ditto anything else potentially helpful, such as autocomplete. If you
manage to get a directory listing, it's equally unobvious how to
navigate THAT if the entire list doesn't fit on the screen at one
time.

Contrast GUI apps, which provide such a list by default and always
(for a given OS/WM, anyway) have the same means of navigating this
list, so your knowledge of one app can be transferred to a large
selection of other apps.

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)

So emacs happens to be one of the better 50%. Good for emacs. :P

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

Ah, no, you did.

I did not, and indeed never said anything about my professional needs
here at all.

That's nice to know. Thanks. :P

[insult deleted]

650, and none of the nasty things that you have said or implied about
me are at all true.

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 [implied insult deleted]

651, and none of the nasty things that you have said or implied about
me are at all true.
.

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