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Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:37:56 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Brian Elmegaard <brian@rk-speed-rugby.dk> writes:

> Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@glug.org> writes:
>
>> Brian Elmegaard <brian@rk-speed-rugby.dk> writes:
>> 
>> > Me too. But, the students I force to use emacs for simulation
>> > (http://www.et.dtu.dk/software/dna) don't like it.
>> 
>> if this software produces graphs or other images, you can display
>> them in an emacs buffer.  that is all the UI you will need to trick
>> students into enjoying the fast edit cycle.
>
> You are right. BTW, could I build a UI with drag'n'drop
> possibilities inside emacs?

CVS Emacs understands the "drop" part of the X Drag'n'drop
specification.  Drop files in a dired buffer, and they get moved
there.  Drop them in most other windows, and they get opened.

Of course, _inside_ of Emacs is all up to your Elisp programming
skills.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum


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