Falcolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> 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?
You're making the assumption that Mac OS in 1984 offered some textual capability (textual, since we're discussing text editing) which emacs did not. It didn't. -- Robert Uhl <http://public.xdi.org/=ruhl> A: Top posting Q: What's the most annoying thing about Usenet? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
