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Re: Will default key bindings spell the death of Emacs?
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Robert J. Chassell |
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Re: Will default key bindings spell the death of Emacs? |
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Sat, 31 May 2003 21:31:57 +0000 (UTC) |
address@hidden (David Kastrup) wrote:
A user interface is something like click with right mouse key on any
menu entry and get a small submenu
No, that is not correct. You are specifying a particular kind of user
interface for people who are sighted and who do not want to learn a
more efficent technique.
That is an important audience and Emacs should aim for it (as far as I
know, Emacs does not).
But at the same time, Emacs should also provide
* a user interface for people who are permanently or situationally
blind (Emacs does), and,
* a user interface for people who desire to change more than three
bindings at one time efficiently and who are willing to spend
time, but less than the time of doing it awkwardly, learning how
to do this (Emacs does, but GNOME/sawfish, as I found out
yesterday, does not).
(Incidentally, I personally think the first "important feature" in the
etc/TODO list is more important than extending the user interface, but
the second "important feature" is less important.)
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- Re: Will default key bindings spell the death of Emacs?, (continued)
- Re: Will default key bindings spell the death of Emacs?, Lars Hansen, 2003/05/30
- Re: Will default key bindings spell the death of Emacs?, Juanma Barranquero, 2003/05/30
- Re: Will default key bindings spell the death of Emacs?, Alex Schroeder, 2003/05/30
- Re: Will default key bindings spell the death of Emacs?, Luc Teirlinck, 2003/05/30
- Re: Will default key bindings spell the death of Emacs?, Richard Stallman, 2003/05/30
- Re: Will default key bindings spell the death of Emacs?, David Kastrup, 2003/05/31
- Re: Will default key bindings spell the death of Emacs?,
Robert J. Chassell <=
- Re: Will default key bindings spell the death of Emacs?, David Kastrup, 2003/05/31
- Re: Will default key bindings spell the death of Emacs?, Alan Shutko, 2003/05/29
- Re: Will default key bindings spell the death of Emacs?, Stefan Monnier, 2003/05/29
- Re: Will default key bindings spell the death of Emacs?, Kai Großjohann, 2003/05/30
- Re: Will default key bindings spell the death of Emacs?, Kevin Rodgers, 2003/05/30
- Re: Will default key bindings spell the death of Emacs?, Kai Großjohann, 2003/05/30
- Re: Will default key bindings spell the death of Emacs?, Lars Hansen, 2003/05/30
- Re: Will default key bindings spell the death of Emacs?, Stefan Monnier, 2003/05/30
- Re: Will default key bindings spell the death of Emacs?, Richard Stallman, 2003/05/31
- Re: Will default key bindings spell the death of Emacs?, Stefan Monnier, 2003/05/31