[Top][All Lists]   Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer
From: Chiron Subject: Re: Emacs: Problems of the Scratch Buffer
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 03:53:33 GMT User-agent: Pan/0.133 (House
of Butterflies)  On Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:48:34 +0200, Richard
Riley wrote:  > Chiron <address@hidden> writes: >> If Emacs
works for you, use it.  If not, don't, or fix what you feel is
>> wrong with it.  It's nothing but the most highly customizable
editor on >> the planet. > And there is the core problem with so
many Emacs types. Dont like it > dont use it. God forbid it
could *easily* be made more accessible to new > adopters : the
hard core are more than capable of re-enabling the > somewhat
out of date and history rooted "defaults" such as an elisp >
*scratch* as the first buffer you see or the hideous cut & paste
> defaults which leave those coming from the desktops which,
like it or > lump it, account for 97% of computers totally lost
and bemused. > I love emacs, but this "dont like dont use it"
attitude is ridiculou