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Re: Emacs is very special regarding UIs
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Mario Lang |
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Re: Emacs is very special regarding UIs |
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Tue, 15 Sep 2020 10:24:23 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org> writes:
> Mario Lang wrote:
>> Emacs works with graphical toolkits on all major platforms, but also
>> offers a almost-feature-complete text interface.
>
> Emacs is a manifestation of the ITS user interfaces. They all relied on
> text because that's all that was available back then. They also used
> control characters, Altmode/Escape/Meta, and prefix arguments.
That is the history, yes. However, what I was trying to highlight is
that it actually payed off to insist on keeping compatibility with the
text mode interface even after graphical toolkits were established
already. I guess I am talking about the 90s here.
>> I am seeing Emacs as a platform to write "apps" in Emacs Lisp.
>
> In this sense, Emacs is a Lisp machine. Not surprisingly, those came
> from the same place as ITS: the MIT AI Lab.
Yes. A Lisp Machine with several compatible user interface modalities.
Which is just amazingly helpful to people like me.
I guess this is a case of "accidental accessibility" since many
developers seem to not be aware that they have created a perfect platform
for people who are typically forgotten about these days.
Thanks for that. Emacs is a shining beacon in a dark age of canvases
and decorative user interface design.
BTW, things like EWW make a big difference for me.
It is such a time saver being able to invoke the occasional
link in a mail or rss article and not having to switch to an external
browser. I am hoping the xwidget webview will not hurt development of
EWW too much. Because the webview actually breaks the compatibility
mentioned in this thread. It is only available for toolkit users.
--
CYa,
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- Emacs is very special regarding UIs, Mario Lang, 2020/09/08
- Re: Emacs is very special regarding UIs, T.V Raman, 2020/09/08
- Re: Emacs is very special regarding UIs, Lars Brinkhoff, 2020/09/10
- Re: Emacs is very special regarding UIs, T.V Raman, 2020/09/10
- Re: Emacs is very special regarding UIs, andres . ramirez, 2020/09/10
- Re: Emacs is very special regarding UIs, T.V Raman, 2020/09/10
- Re: Emacs is very special regarding UIs, Lars Brinkhoff, 2020/09/10
- Re: Emacs is very special regarding UIs, andrés ramírez, 2020/09/10
Re: Emacs is very special regarding UIs,
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