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Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs |
Date: |
Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:22:44 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> It is a bad habit to exit Emacs when one might need it soon. But
> there is nothing to be gained from starting it when one does not
> actually need to edit anything.
>
> The bad habit effect is that if one gets in the habit of visiting a
> file by starting Emacs,
That was not what I was talking about. I was talking about the habit
of starting Emacs by visiting a file.
I hop you can see the difference.
> one will tend to start a new Emacs instead of going back to the old
> one -- without thinking about it.
>
> Maybe you have the constant mindfulness to overcome the force of
> habit, but many users don't.
Again: it is not our task to punish users whose habits don't match
ours. Emacs is a tool, not a master for the user.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs (was: New start up splash screen annoyance...), (continued)
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs (was: New start up splash screen annoyance...), Richard Stallman, 2007/09/12
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, David Kastrup, 2007/09/12
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/09/13
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, David Kastrup, 2007/09/13
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/09/13
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, David Kastrup, 2007/09/13
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/09/13
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, David Kastrup, 2007/09/13
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, Eli Zaretskii, 2007/09/13
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/14
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/14
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, David Kastrup, 2007/09/15
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, Richard Stallman, 2007/09/15
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, dhruva, 2007/09/16
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, David Kastrup, 2007/09/16
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, dhruva, 2007/09/16
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, David Kastrup, 2007/09/16
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, Robert J. Chassell, 2007/09/16
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, Juri Linkov, 2007/09/19
- Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs, David Kastrup, 2007/09/19