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The Modernization of Emacs: terminology buffer and keybinding

David Kastrup dak at gnu.org
Sat Jun 23 03:43:16 EDT 2007 
Falcolas <garrickp at gmail.com> writes:

> On Jun 22, 11:28 am, Robert Uhl <eadmun... at NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:
>
>> It's Mac OS and Windows which are inconsistent.  Emacs has been
>> around since they were mere glimmers in the eye of Jobs & Gates...
>
> Inconsistent? I would have to disagree. They changed paradigms -
> terminal text based interfaces to GUIs. You wouldn't expect a piece
> of software built for a terminal to be backwards compatibility to
> punch card interfaces, would you?

You are aware that the ubiquitous standard terminal width of 80
columns has been chosen to match the 80-column punch card standard?

> Why would a GUI based program limit itself to functionality as
> defined by a terminal application?

Emacs uses variable width fonts, can deal with a larger-than-8bit
variety of GUI-based input events and can display images.  Take a look
at the screen shots for preview-latex
<URL:http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex/preview-latex.html>
illustrating WYSIWYG LaTeX editing in Emacs windows.

So what is your problem?

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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