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Originally Posted by Stephonovich
But text editors were not designed to do all that–that’s my entire point. If you want a beast that does everything, sure, go ahead. I prefer to have applications do what they were designed to do. I don’t use WMP because it’s too big for what little use I make of it. FB2K and MPC (or XMMS and Xine) suit me just fine.
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Remember though that it’s is mostly user written scripts! There obviously has been a demand for it. My point is, you wouldn’t be able to do it in a lesser editor. Furthermore the stock version of Emacs is basically an editor. There is installed mail and news program by default, I think.
Emacs isn’t just an editor, the conclusion must be, I think
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| The newbies can suck it up and like it, IMO |
Well, I’m not sure we will reach agreement on that one. People are differant.
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| Besides, if it’s a text editor, what on earth does it need a GUI for? |
To make it easier for users of course! The included ref card is 6 pages! Nobody can remember that therefor menus are necessary. If I were to create a html file in Emacs I wouldn’t know any of the shortcuts and therefor I would need a GUI.
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| What happens when you need to edit a file in Terminal or on a system that doesn’t have X installed? That’s right–you use vi, because it’s on practically every system by default. |
If you by ‘practically every system’ means those 10% (at the most) which run Linux then yes, maybe you are right. On the other hand, how often does that happen? Normally you’d use your own computer for text editing and you’d have your favorite program installed, so it is quite a theoretical scenario.
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| Yet another example of code bloat. My point still stands–if you want an all-in-one beast, go right ahead. I see no reason why a text editor should double as an email client. |
\[\bar n*_j(s)=\frac{\left\{s\sum_{i=1}k
n_i(0)p*{i,k+1}(s)+M*(s)\right\}\sum_{i=1}k
p_{0i}p*{ij}(s)}{1-s\sum_{i=1}kp_{0i}p*_{i,
k+1}(s)}+\sum_{i=1}kn_i(0)p*_{ij}(s)[j=
1,2,\dots,k].\]
That’s real useful, aint it. You can easily tell what it is...
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Define ‘fancy text.’ I meant it as formatting and the like, i.e. for a letter. Personally, I don’t feel like writing my letters with:
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[left]\title{Re: Blah} \author{Stephan Garland} \date{\26 June 2005} \begin{document}[/left]
LaTeX is indeed quite powerful, but it’s not very conveinent for writing a letter. I meant more like OpenOffice, AbiWord, and the like. |
I didn’t know there was a code environment on Head-Fi
Well, each is his own. I’d say it would be faster to write it in LaTeX than having to fix style and alignment etc. Also, with packages such as KOMA-Script you can quite easy create a quite fancy heading and send the same letter out to a number of people etc.
What I like about LaTeX is
a) it use nicer fonts.
b) the typography will be uniform throughout the document (it won’t necessary be if you use OO.o or MS’s even if you use the build-in style options).
c) I don’t have to use the mouse. That is particularly useful when typing math.
