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Re: emacs for everything?
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William Xuuu |
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Re: emacs for everything? |
Date: |
Fri, 26 Nov 2004 12:51:11 +0800 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) |
floyd@barrow.com (Floyd L. Davidson) writes:
> I simply do not understand the sanity in what you have
> described! That is a straight jacket!
>
> Except I'll grant that fonts in X are a problem. I've spent
This is one of the key reason that i'm sticking to console. ;-)
> hours and hours finding fonts (for any given screen resolution)
> that provide a nice, readable screen under both (x)emacs and in
> an xterm. But it is *definitely* worth it.
>
> The "black background, good for eyes" comment is correct, but
> misplaced. Under X I use goldenrod2 as the foreground color
> along with black for the background, and it is much like the old
> "amber" monochrome monitors of years ago. Which is to say, even
> better than white on black, for the eyes!
>
> But what you are missing by using a console is the extreme
> versatility provided by a good window manager under X. Your
> message headers indicate that you are using Linux, which means
> you have to switch between a console and X with a rather clunky
Yeah, i admit it a weakness. Not a big deal, though. Most of the time i'm
under console.
> mechanism, and have extremely limited use of screen space when
> in the console. What I do, using fvwm2 as a window manager, is
> set up a desktop manager with a 1x15 matrix of virtual desktops.
You are so smart to master 15 desktops! I know fvwm supports multiple
virtual desktops. But I only use one desktop.
> The desktop manager is on the left side of the screen, and is
> sticky. Hence I need about 1/8 inch of the left side to be
> clear in order to use it with a mouse (and none of it needs to
> be clear to use the keyboard to switch desktops).
I hate that. I'd love Emacs to occupy the whole screen. And i don't like to
use mouse.
> At this moment I have 4 web (opera) browsers open in four
> different desktops (all as different users). I have at least a
> dozen instances of an xterm running in various windows. At a
> glance I can see which desktop I am in, and with the click of a
> mouse I can move to a different one, or I can use control-arrow
> keys to scroll up or down through the list. (If at any time I
> want a window in any desktop moved to the same desktop as
> another window, that is an almost instant operation requiring
> about three clicks of the mouse to do.)
>
> Consider the effort that you have to go through on a console if
> you want to switch to a web browser. I can select any of four
> of them with a single mouse click. And I could have them all
> stacked up in the same desktop in short order too, which simply
> cannot be done on a console.
If i don't care the pictures, w3m is pretty good for me. BTW, why don't you
use tabs in web browsing?
--
William Xuuu
- Re: emacs for everything?, (continued)
- Re: emacs for everything?, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2004/11/17
- Re: emacs for everything?, Floyd L. Davidson, 2004/11/17
- Re: emacs for everything?, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2004/11/17
- Re: emacs for everything?, Henrik S. Hansen, 2004/11/17
- Re: emacs for everything?, Alan Mackenzie, 2004/11/18
- Re: emacs for everything?, Stefan Monnier, 2004/11/18
- Re: emacs for everything?, Floyd L. Davidson, 2004/11/18
- Re: emacs for everything?, Alan Mackenzie, 2004/11/19
- Re: emacs for everything?, Cristian Gutierrez, 2004/11/19
- Re: emacs for everything?, Leonardo Boiko, 2004/11/19
- Re: emacs for everything?,
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Re: emacs for everything?, Pascal Bourguignon, 2004/11/15
Re: emacs for everything?, respower, 2004/11/15
Re: emacs for everything?, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2004/11/15
Re: emacs for everything?, Kai Grossjohann, 2004/11/16
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Re: emacs for everything?, Joe Corneli, 2004/11/16