From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,bc94896f23dccfae X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-03-06 17:49:48 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.ems.psu.edu!news.cis.ohio-state.edu!ngpeer.news.aol.com!news.compuserve.com!news-master.compuserve.com!not-for-mail From: DPH Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Somewhat on Topic: Word Processing Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 20:50:48 -0500 Organization: CompuServe Interactive Services Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: mid-tgn-nov-vty157.as.wcom.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ngspool-d02.news.aol.com 1047001782 11746 216.192.80.157 (7 Mar 2003 01:49:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@compuserve.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 01:49:42 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:35000 Date: 2003-03-06T20:50:48-05:00 List-Id: On 06 Mar 2003 14:45:25 -0500, Stephen Leake wrote: >DPH 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... >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... Dave Head