On Jun 22, 11:28 am, Robert Uhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's the advantage of a well-organised set of commands. If you want > to use regexp search, you have to look at the dialogue box and click on > a checkbox--which would be a context switch.
Again, you are assuming that the editor isn't set up in a way which allows this to be done from the keyboard. ctrl-f, alt-e, type, enter > That's even assuming that your editor _offers_ regexp search. If emacs > didn't have it, I could add it, and it'd be just as much part of the > editor as if it were included... One advantage I'm more than happy to cede to you - the current program I use is closed source and not extensible. Though, I'm sure that there are editors for windows/mac/xwindows which are as extensible as emacs. > It's Mac OS and Windows which are inconsistent. Emacs has been around > since they were mere glimmers in the eye of Jobs & Gates... Inconsistent? I would have to disagree. They changed paradigms - terminal text based interfaces to GUIs. You wouldn't expect a piece of software built for a terminal to be backwards compatibility to punch card interfaces, would you? Why would a GUI based program limit itself to functionality as defined by a terminal application? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list