19 Nov
2018
19 Nov
'18
3:58 a.m.
On 11/16/18 4:13 PM, Jon Steinhart 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.
That's fine. Everyone gets to use whatever they want.
But really the issue is that info introduced a new
interface on a system
that already had one that people were accustomed to.
Improvement is in the eye of the beholder. RMS and other folks consider
info, with its hyperlinks, indexes, and tree-based navigation the superior
alternative. Not just different, but better.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet(a)case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/