On Fri, 18 May 2007 19:35:46 +0300, Yossi Kreinin <yossi.krei...@mobileye.com> wrote:
> Sean O'Rourke wrote: > > > > I like Emacs's solution to this (on a terminal): the user will > > eventually type backspace, which pops up a huge, dense, and > > ultimately useless meta-help screen. > > > > What are you talking about? XEmacs has an excellent online GUI help system! > You emacs and excellent in one line. Paradox. > go to a menu, and up pops an excellent text buffer with all kinds of useless > stuff. wxcellent, again in the context of emacs? > I even found how to enlarge the font there once! Too bad I overshoot a little > though - with the new settings, each letter took about 25% of the screen. > Which > is when an interesting question came to my mind: /just how am I supposed to > get > back now/, when everything, and I mean *everything*, every bit of text is now > rendered in about 3 huge rows and 4 huge columns? I agree to a certain extent that vi is shit for the beginning user, but for people that need power, there is not an interactive tool available that is more powerful. And at least it restricts itself to what it is built for. FWIW the best intuitive editor I ever used was 'shed' on Primos, and the best `strange' editor was one, I forgot it's name, on VMES or something, a custom OS specific for VME-bus systems with MC680x0 CPU's. -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using & porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.9.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, & 11.23, SuSE 10.0 & 10.2, AIX 4.3 & 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/
