Re: Somewhat on Topic: Word Processing

[DPH <rally2xs@compuserve.com>]

On 06 Mar 2003 14:45:25 -0500, Stephen Leake
<Stephen.A.Leake@nasa.gov> wrote:

>DPH <rally2xs@compuserve.com> writes:
>
>> [about Emacs] Gimmie a pull-down menu every time...  
>
>Emacs has pull-down menus, for the most common operations. 

The one I got hold of a couple years ago had nothing resembling
pull-down menus.  I was using it on Windows - maybe that's the
difference.

>It also has a very easily accessed complete list of the key bindings.

>Yes, there is a lot to learn to use Emacs well; I've been using it for
>15 years, and I'm still learning.

Well, that's not encouraging - I'm going to retire in less than
that... <G>

>Same goes for Ada, and for any powerful, complex, extremely useful
>system.
>
>> I was gonna build a cheat sheet of commands until someone told me
>> there are 100's of them.  Knowing I'd never memorize 'em all, I went
>> back to what I was using and uninstalled emacs.
>
>Ok. You'll be less productive than me, so I'll survive better in the
>market place :).

Of course, its a basic tenent of software engineering that more time
is spent in the design phase than in the code and test phase, so
overall, I doubt an editor will be all that significant an impact.
Plus, I use Microsoft Word, unless I'm in and IDE, and anything I want
it to do that it doesn't do, I can pretty much use VBA and make it do
it.  I just don't much need colored keywords...  I know what they
are... <G>

Dave Head