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Re: emacs for everything?
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Henrik S. Hansen |
Subject: |
Re: emacs for everything? |
Date: |
Wed, 17 Nov 2004 23:07:39 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
floyd@barrow.com (Floyd L. Davidson) writes:
> Your post wasn't even a good troll, much less much of a joke.
> Can't you do better?
Pot, meet kettle.
> I would like to know how you use your fingers and brain to
> remember the _current_ time on a clock that you do not display?
> (As just one very trivial example of how limited your described
> environment is in a real world.)
Do you realize that not everyone works like you do? I can go weeks
without starting X, but it is not because I think it's overly complex.
I simply don't feel the need for that functionality.
There's also the issue of shifting focus in X -- most wm require you to
move windows, etc. Often, a task bar also takes up some screen space.
And so on.
Of course, some wm's, like ratpoison (which I use), are more minimalist;
these are typically used by people that want a console environment in X.
Some are highly configurable (fvwm2). Some are loaded with eye candy
and fanciness (enlightenment). And then there's GNOME and KDE,
providing a full user environment.
If anything, the many different window managers shows that people want
to work in different ways. This is the Unix philosophy.
--
Henrik S. Hansen http://freecode.dk/~hsh/
Computer science (software engineering) student
Free Software Foundation member #1702 (http://member.fsf.org)
- Re: emacs for everything?, (continued)
- Re: emacs for everything?, Henrik S. Hansen, 2004/11/15
- Re: emacs for everything?, Per Abrahamsen, 2004/11/15
- Re: emacs for everything?, William Xuuu, 2004/11/16
- Re: emacs for everything?, Floyd L. Davidson, 2004/11/16
- Re: emacs for everything?, Alan Mackenzie, 2004/11/16
- Re: emacs for everything?, Oliver Scholz, 2004/11/17
- Re: emacs for everything?, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2004/11/17
- Re: emacs for everything?, Floyd L. Davidson, 2004/11/17
- Re: emacs for everything?, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2004/11/17
- Re: emacs for everything?,
Henrik S. Hansen <=
- Re: emacs for everything?, Alan Mackenzie, 2004/11/18
- Re: emacs for everything?, Stefan Monnier, 2004/11/18
- Re: emacs for everything?, Floyd L. Davidson, 2004/11/18
- Re: emacs for everything?, Alan Mackenzie, 2004/11/19
- Re: emacs for everything?, Cristian Gutierrez, 2004/11/19
- Re: emacs for everything?, Leonardo Boiko, 2004/11/19
- Re: emacs for everything?, William Xuuu, 2004/11/26
- Re: emacs for everything?, Alex Polite, 2004/11/23
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