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=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 103376,578bd4d051bc4686 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2004-04-16 08:31:57 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!news.agarik.com!news.agarik.com!usenet-fr.net!enst.fr!melchior!cuivre.fr.eu.org!melchior.frmug.org!not-for-mail From: Preben Randhol Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: OT: GUI [was:]Ann: TeXCAD 4.1 Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 17:30:00 +0200 Organization: PVV Sender: Preben Randhol Message-ID: References: <1nB9c.87678$dP1.256721@newsc.telia.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lovelace.ada-france.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org 1082129414 94617 212.85.156.195 (16 Apr 2004 15:30:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@melchior.cuivre.fr.eu.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 15:30:14 +0000 (UTC) To: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org Return-Path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1nB9c.87678$dP1.256721@newsc.telia.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p7 (Debian) at ada-france.org X-BeenThere: comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Gateway to the comp.lang.ada Usenet newsgroup" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:7209 Date: 2004-04-16T17:30:00+02:00 Bj�rn Persson wrote on 28/03/2004 (15:40) : > Since some people seem to feel that they need to defend Emacs, let me > make one thing clear: The post above was not about which editor is best. > It was not about mice versus keyboards. It was most definitely *not* > about the End key. You brought that up. > It was about _consistency_ in user interfaces. I did not say that > Emacs and VI are bad. I said that _big_differences_ between programs' > user interfaces are annoying. And consistency is A Bad Thing [tm] when it hinders efficiency. Doing something in a certain way in one type of application can be efficient yet at the same time pain-stakingly unefficient in another... -- Preben Randhol -------------- http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/Ada95 -- �For me, Ada95 puts back the joy in programming.�