Re: Does anyone really use emacs in terminal?

[Steven Degutis]

(Oops, redoing that in plain-text mode.)

> That's rather the other way you should ask: what's the use case of using a 
> bitmap _graphic_ screen to edit _text_?

Because then my syntax highlighting and color theme has access to some
several million colors, not just 256. This, plus viewing it on a
retina display, and suddenly the text I stare at all day looks quite
beautiful.

-Steven

On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Steven Degutis <sbdegutis@gmail.com> wrote:
>> That's rather the other way you should ask: what's the use case of using a
>> bitmap _graphic_ screen to edit _text_?
>
>
> Because then my syntax highlighting and color theme has access to some
> several million colors, not just 256. This, plus viewing it on a retina
> display, and suddenly the text I stare at all day looks quite beautiful.