On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 04:57:20 -0000, Twisted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> tried to confuse everyone with this message:
>On Jun 23, 2:04 am, Robert Uhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Of course, emacs doesn't take years of mastery. It takes 30, 40 >> minutes. > >I gave it twice that, and it failed to grow on me in that amount of >time. > >> > Besides, ANY interface that involves fumbling around in the dark >> > trying to find a light switch is clunky. >> >> That sounds like vi, not emacs. > >That sounds like any application where you need to read the help, but >"f1" does not bring up a separate help window, switchable with the >main one using alt-tab or the mouse, and navigable using arrows, >pageup, pagedn, and the mouse. The result of that is invariably that >when the document has the focus, the help is open to "help on >switching windows" rather than whatever you need it to be on once the >document has the focus. You can read the help on doing what you want >to do with the document, but to apply it you need to transfer focus >back to the document. If doing that isn't second-nature, you have to >navigate the help away from where you need it to get the focus back to >the document. Now the focus is on the document, but the help you need >isn't displayed next to it anymore. Frustrating? You can't begin to >imagine, I suspect. Apparently, some people are born somehow able to >avoid this problem without having to memorize one or the other piece >of help. You're clearly one of those. I am equally clearly NOT one of >those. Of course, if emacs let you keep THREE windows open and visible >at the same time, instead of being limited to one or a horizontally >split two ... and a cramped 80x10 or so each, at that ... What an idiot. At least get yourt facts straight before posting such bullshit. -- |Don't believe this - you're not worthless ,gr---------.ru |It's us against millions and we can't take them all... | ue il | |But we can take them on! | @ma | | (A Wilhelm Scream - The Rip) |______________| -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
