Re: [Texmacs-dev] Mathematics as a drawing; clipboard; a motto

[David Allouche]

On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 06:39:46PM +0200, Álvaro Tejero Cantero wrote:
> > 
> > Right this is exactly what I am working towards to and
> > I see images, tables and trees (hey!) as such universal tools.
> 
> Why trees and not graphs?

Well, graphs too... when they are supported.
 
> Selections
> -----------
> The least confusing behaviour for me, concerning selections is, if not a
> platform specific-scheme:
> 
> -> implicit copying/cutting goes to clipboard 'A'
> -> C-c/C-x copying/cutting goes to clipbuard 'B'
> -> Middle button pastes from 'A'.
> -> C-v pastes from 'B'.
> 
> That way everybody get their expected behaviour, plus X11 users have 2
> clipboards at their fingertips, which is very handy.

Well, I think that would really be most confusing, especially for GNU
users who are used to some awful mix of conventions *using the same
clipboard*.

I think the good way is to have one *clean* convention at a time and
allow the user choose the one he wants. The discussion was about which
convention should be the default.

Joris say "the convention I like should be the default" and I say "the
convention used everywhere the GUI is not a mess should be used, and
your personal preference should be the default". But it does not look
like I am going to convince him.


> ------
> Absolutely unrelated, I want to state that one of the reasons for me to
> use TeXmacs is that it is so pleasurable. I insist that a motto might be
> useful for TeXmacs, either to counter the unfortunate confusion of the
> name it bears or else to promote it better. As I think that the
> aesthetical component dominates so much the motivations of both
> developers and users of TeXmacs, I suggest using
> 
> TeXmacs. Writing is a pleasure.
> 
> I hope this will attract many people to TeXmacs, stressing that TeXmacs
> is to conventional wordprocessors what a stylographic pen is to a biro.

Well... that is kind of a salesman slogan... Yet I like the idea of
putting the idea of fun in control.

The topic in #texmacs is currently "Word processing for real geeks".
That is tailored to the public of OpenProjects.net :-)

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                             -- David --