The Modernization of Emacs: terminology buffer and keybinding

[Timofei Shatrov]

On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 04:57:20 -0000, Twisted <twisted0n3 at gmail.com> tried to
confuse everyone with this message:

>On Jun 23, 2:04 am, Robert Uhl <eadmun... at NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:
>> Of course, emacs doesn't take years of mastery.  It takes 30, 40
>> minutes.
>
>I gave it twice that, and it failed to grow on me in that amount of
>time.
>
>> > Besides, ANY interface that involves fumbling around in the dark
>> > trying to find a light switch is clunky.
>>
>> That sounds like vi, not emacs.
>
>That sounds like any application where you need to read the help, but
>"f1" does not bring up a separate help window, switchable with the
>main one using alt-tab or the mouse, and navigable using arrows,
>pageup, pagedn, and the mouse. The result of that is invariably that
>when the document has the focus, the help is open to "help on
>switching windows" rather than whatever you need it to be on once the
>document has the focus. You can read the help on doing what you want
>to do with the document, but to apply it you need to transfer focus
>back to the document. If doing that isn't second-nature, you have to
>navigate the help away from where you need it to get the focus back to
>the document. Now the focus is on the document, but the help you need
>isn't displayed next to it anymore. Frustrating? You can't begin to
>imagine, I suspect. Apparently, some people are born somehow able to
>avoid this problem without having to memorize one or the other piece
>of help. You're clearly one of those. I am equally clearly NOT one of
>those. Of course, if emacs let you keep THREE windows open and visible
>at the same time, instead of being limited to one or a horizontally
>split two ... and a cramped 80x10 or so each, at that ...

What an idiot. At least get yourt facts straight before posting such bullshit.

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