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Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs?


From: Mario Lassnig
Subject: Re: What's your favourite *under_publicized* editing feature ofEmacs?
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 15:21:38 +0100
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On 3/1/11 3:05 PM, Cthun wrote:
Saying version control is for novels is like saying
the purpose of Usenet is pointless bickering, Janney; saying it's for
source code is like saying the purpose of Usenet is for discussion. Your
mistake is rather ironic, though, considering your own considerable
recent contributions to the misuse of Usenet for pointless bickering,
Janney.

What does your classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim have to do with Lisp, Cthun?

Plain, unformatted ASCII text, Janney, which is hardly useful for
writing novels and articles. Novels tend to contain italics and other
formatting here and there, Janney, whereas articles frequently contain
scientific and mathematical symbols that do not exist in ASCII or
sometimes even Unicode, and tables, graphs, charts, and formatted
equations that cannot be represented nicely using a grid of characters.

What does your classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim have to do with Lisp, Cthun?

Occasionally hitting control-S and backing up your
files regularly is a lot easier than learning Emacs, Janney.

What does your classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim have to do with Lisp, Cthun?

Version control systems are inherently complex and
inherently client/server oriented, Janney; if they weren't they'd be
useless for their primary purpose, which is to enable collaborative
software development, Janney.

What does your classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim have to do with Lisp, Cthun?

It's rather less work than struggling to learn, and later struggling to
remember, those "few key strokes in Emacs", Janney. Not to mention the
sprained wrists from tying your hands into pretzels trying to hit seven
different modifier keys simultaneously, Janney. Emacs is not a text
editor, Janney, it is a keyboard-implemented version of the game "Twister".

What does your classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim have to do with Lisp, Cthun?

And it remains true that using SVN to "develop" a
novel is like using a hammer to insert a screw, Janney.

What does your classic unsubstantiated and erroneous claim have to do with Lisp, Cthun?


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