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Re: GTK file selector
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
Re: GTK file selector |
Date: |
Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:49:00 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> Do you not understand what the GTK2 people did? They didn’t remove features,
> it’s just as possible to use the new dialog box in the same way as the old.
The filename entry field (with available TAB completion like in Emacs) was
a very useful feature. Neither C-l nor a small text box that appears
after starting typing is an acceptable replacement.
> And yes, making GNU Emacs behave more like a Win32 app, like Notepad, _will_
> make naïve users happy. Look at the success of CUA-mode.
CUA-mode doesn't disable useful Emacs features.
> Hang round with Win32 users looking for an advanced editor, and they’ll
> go for Notepad++ long before GNU Emacs, because all their habits from
> Notepad work in Notepad++, and not in emacs.
Notepad++ is not easier to use for naive users than Emacs.
> Emacs is more featureful, but not enough to overcome the pain of finding
> out what CUA-mode is
The top-level menu item in the Options menu that enables CUA-mode
and its tooltip are self-descriptive enough.
> and doing all the other donkey-work to have the editor behave like what
> they’re used to.
Experts can do this easily anyway.
> They abandon it because of stagnant development, the design and
> implementation clusterfuck that is Mule from the perspective of European
> language users (search for ö not working again!)
Not in the unicode-2 branch.
> and minimal consideration for GUI users in this age of 17"
> screens. Among other reasons.
>
> Eclipse, VIM or Notepad++ seem to be what most of the power users I know who
> chose an advanced editor recently are using.
I don't think VIM belongs to the category of Notepad-like editors.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
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