17 Nov
2018
17 Nov
'18
3:13 a.m.
Chet Ramey writes:
On 11/16/18 3:52 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
Well, not wanting to start a flame war here, but I don't use emacs. While
it's a good piece of software, I just want a text editor. Emacs sort of
violates my UNIX-sense as it does many things instead of doing one thing
well.
But really the issue is that info introduced a new interface on a system
that already had one that people were accustomed to. This is something
that perpetually annoys me in the software world; people introducing new
ways of doing things that aren't improvements, just different. Just makes
life harder for everyone else.
As an example, I recently did a deep dive trying to figure out why promises
were added to JavaScript. Actually has nothing to do with the first
10000000000 search results. They were done for a particular reason that I
don't agree with but were an excuse for someone to force their preferred
coding style on others. And the details are not a topic for this list.
Jon
On Fri, 16 Nov 2018, Toby Thain wrote:
If you don't use emacs, you won't like it. GNU understood the difference, and wrote separate
manuals (e.g. `info
bash`, `info bison`, etc).
GNU "info" is one of the most non-intuitive interfaces that I've ever had
the displeasure to use. Or maybe that's just me...