>>>>> On Mon, 6 Sep 1993 07:51:24 GMT, A.Sloman@uk.ac.bham.cs ("A.Sloman") said:
[stuff about futility of editor flame wars deleted]
Aaron> But arguing about the pros and cons of particular editors is utterly
Aaron> pointless. There will NEVER be agreement in taste on these matters, so
Aaron> users should have a choice.
Agreed. I thought the bit about users not wanting sequences like "ESC
C-q p 3" a bit below the belt -- especially when it can be bound to a
function key. Perhaps I'll retort with a jibe about "ENTER
vedveryhardtoremembercommand" ;-)
[and much later]
Aaron> Anyhow one thing is very clear: nobody is going to convert the world to
Aaron> using VED or to using Emacs. Therefore (as Alan Montgomery once said to
Aaron> me around 1985) it is essential for Poplog to be able support multiple
Aaron> editors even if not all of them give the full benefits of VED or Emacs.
Aaron> But since emulating all of them is out of the question, I believe the
Aaron> only solution is to provide the two sorts of interfaces described above.
Aaron> Designing them well will be much harder than implementing them!
If there's a job in it, I'm interested.
Ceri
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Ceri Hopkins
School of Computer Science C.A.Hopkins@Cs.Bham.Ac.Uk
University of Birmingham Tel. +44-21-414-3743
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