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Re: Efficient Emacs usage?


From: Mathias Dahl
Subject: Re: Efficient Emacs usage?
Date: 26 Nov 2004 08:44:06 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50

Phillip Lord <p.lord@cs.man.ac.uk> writes:

>   Lee> I've tried it and I hate it.  It's too
>   Lee> _distracting_.  I can't write with such a
>   Lee> distracting feature.
>   >>
>   >>
>   >> Distracting? From someone who uses fully justified
>   >> text with fixed width fonts?
> 
>   Mathias> Different people find different things
>   Mathias> distracting.
> 
> 
> True. Justified text is, however, the work of the
> devil. It's makes normal variable width text harder to
> read, although it does look nicer on page. With fixed
> width fonts, you don't even get that advantage.

I agree and think is is ugly, or at least hard to read. It
is a cool feature in Emacs when you do need it though, but
lucky for us it is not the default filling style.

/Mathias


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