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Re: Is Emacs becoming Word?
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Is Emacs becoming Word? |
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Fri, 25 Mar 2005 22:37:21 +0100 |
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Greg Novak <novak@ucolick.org> writes:
> As a longtime emacs user, I would like to register a complaint about
> the direction of Emacs. This is probably a cry in the wilderness,
> but here goes:
>
> Starting with Emacs21, the program has been creeping toward becoming
> a WYSIWYG editor, instead of sticking to its roots as a _TEXT_
> editor.
Stallman would be glad to hear it. He explicitly stated: "I want
Emacs to move in the direction of doing word processing."
> Some of these features are cool and useful: Eg, I use the ability to
> display PNG files in a buffer to look at previews of math I've
> typeset with Latex in the same buffer as the Latex source. Cool,
> and useful.
Thanks.
> While I'm not against implementing these wacky new feature, I
> request that they remain _off by default_.
Which is what preview-latex does.
> Today when I was editing source code and tried to type pi/2 in a
> buffer, Emacs replaced it with some special character that appeared
> as "1/2" as a single character.
Unlikely. Let me name a few things that might have happened:
a) you use Leim (C-\) for input of international characters and the
transliteration for ½ is /2. Leim is not on unless you enable it. It
should be easy to find an input method that suits your bill better.
b) you use font-lock-mode in LaTeX and write something like ^2, in
which case a subscript 2 appears. font-lock-mode is not turned on by
default. Even if you turn it on, you can remove the script
highlighting.
> Needless to say, this is not what I wanted and I find it quite
> offensive that this is happening while editing source code.
Then don't enable the features.
> The other day I was editing Lisp code and found that instead of the
> usual paren highlighting, Emacs was highlighting the entire enclosed
> expression.
I don't get that here. What did you switch on to get it?
> I've had a long, sometimes rocky, but mostly loving relationship
> with Emacs. I find these developments troubling.
There is always the NEWS file to get things back. But they are rarely
on by default.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Re: Is Emacs becoming Word?, (continued)
- Re: Is Emacs becoming Word?, Joe Corneli, 2005/03/27
- Re: Is Emacs becoming Word?, Greg Novak, 2005/03/27
- Re: Is Emacs becoming Word?, Joe Corneli, 2005/03/27
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- Re: Is Emacs becoming Word?, Thomas A. Horsley, 2005/03/27
- Re: Is Emacs becoming Word?, Henrik Enberg, 2005/03/27
- Re: Is Emacs becoming Word?, Joe Corneli, 2005/03/28
- Re: Is Emacs becoming Word?, Greg Novak, 2005/03/31
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