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Re: delete-selection-mode
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David Kastrup |
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Re: delete-selection-mode |
Date: |
Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:39:37 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
Paul R <address@hidden> writes:
>> After all: new users might give up because they don't realize that
>> what fails to make them more efficient than when using other editors
>> is only a default setting, not inherent to the emacs program itself.
>
> Yes. But I am not trying to argue what is the most efficient way to
> work, I'm leaving this decision to each emacs user feeling.
But it is inefficient to dig around for customization options and
different work styles all the time...
> If you had a shop at the first floor of a building, would you build
> some stairs with 1 meter high steps each, just because you know its
> doable with lots of training, and incidentatly more efficient than
> many many tiny 20cm high steps, like in every other place ?
It isn't more efficient. Simple biomechanics (muscles work best in
intermediate elongation, in particular when we are talking about those
bending a limb). Even if you believed it to be more efficient, nobody
keeps you from taking five steps at a time.
I think there is no necessity to throw bad-fitting analogies into the
discussion: there is enough material to cover without them.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Re: delete-selection-mode, (continued)
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/04/21
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Jason Rumney, 2008/04/21
- Re: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2008/04/21
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Richard Stallman, 2008/04/22
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Thomas Lord, 2008/04/22
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Jason Rumney, 2008/04/22
- Re: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2008/04/22
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Richard Stallman, 2008/04/22
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Richard Stallman, 2008/04/22
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Paul R, 2008/04/21
- Re: delete-selection-mode,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2008/04/21
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/04/21
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Robert J. Chassell, 2008/04/21
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/04/21
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Robert J. Chassell, 2008/04/22
- Re: delete-selection-mode, David Kastrup, 2008/04/22
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Robert J. Chassell, 2008/04/22
- Re: delete-selection-mode, David Reitter, 2008/04/22
- Re: delete-selection-mode, Richard Stallman, 2008/04/21
- RE: delete-selection-mode, Drew Adams, 2008/04/20