Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs?

[javax.swing.JSnarker]

On 24/02/2011 6:14 PM, Xah Lee wrote:
> Lennart's EmacsW32+Emacs does that for Windows.
>
> my humble ErgoEmacs does it.
>
> David Reitter's AquamacEmacs does it.
>
> all these by default have keybindings that's radically different from
> GNU Emacs. (in Lennart's EmacsW32 you have to turn it on.) They also
> add various UI improvements

I'd be more impressed by that claim if it were actually difficult to do. 
But making emacs segfault on startup would qualify as a UI improvement, 
so ...

> from what i've seen in GNU emacs mailing list, any little suggestion
> about incorporating any UI change into GNU Emacs is met with major
> resistance and debate. Almost everytime, giant fireball blows up in
> the list.

The correlation between emacs and flamewars is well known by now.

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