In the following, i describe some critical changes that are also very easy to fix in emacs, which may be made by a single elisp programer within a single day, and has no impact on emacs's power. It was a sign of expertise to have learned the UIs of dozens of applications, since a novice user facing a new program would find their existing knowledge of a similar application absolutely no use whatsoever. Thus, every program had to be learned individually and its complete user interface memorized. Insert sometimes toggled between overtype and inserting characters, but some programs used it for “paste”. F1 was often help but in WordPerfect that was F3. Some programs used End to go to the end of a line, some used it to complete filling in a form. Some programs used Escape to cancel an action, some used it to complete one WordPerfect used it to repeat a character. In Emacs, a file was opened with Ctrl+ x followed by Ctrl+ f (for find-file).In Microsoft Word, a file was opened with Escape (to open the menus), t (for Transfer), l (for Load).In Lotus 1-2-3, a file was opened with / (to open the menus), w (for Workspace), r (for Retrieve).In WordPerfect, the command to open a file was F7 3.Its aim was in part to bring about harmony between MS-DOS applications, which until then had implemented totally different user interfaces. The following is a excerpt from the Wikipedia article onĬUA was a detailed specification and set strict rules about how applications should look and function. Software applications used today, where their User Interface are Is that emacs's user interface is rather esoteric, involving arcane Majority, perhaps greater than 95%, do not use emacs.Ī major difficulty among programers who do not use or like emacs, Those who makes a living primarily by writing code), i think, a vast
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If you take a survey of all professional programers (defined as Light publishing needs such as table layout, simple line graphicsĭrawing, embedded images, math formulas. Powerful editor that also does styled text, formatting, and sundry Have simple text editors bundled that will satisfy majority ofĬomputer users, which are non-professional computer users.įor the few professional computer users (secretaries, graphicsĪrtists, scientists, engineers, game developers, 3D-modelers, systemĪdministrators, programers), a majority will need a easy to use, yet Used by some 90% of computer users worldwide. For example, emacs is notīundled on the popular operating system Windows, which are Spring up here and there even though they don't have as much power or Same is true on other operating systems, and new editors In many cases, they are willing to pay money for it. Integrated development environment such as Will be more than happy to use any of other graphical editors on the Than happy to use editors other than emacs. If emacs is such a great and powerful text editor why relatively few people use it? Vast majority of people who need to write will be more (Technically it does not qualify because a OS implies management of hardware.). Some calls emacs as a Operating System as a joke. These seemingly wild functionalities are employed in production daily by a significant number of programers around the world. And, besides text editing, it is also used as a email reader, newsgroup reader, ftp client, irc client, web browser, shell interface, file management application, scientific calculator, calendar and personal info management application, lisp language system, among other things. It is perhaps the most powerful and most versatile text editor.