Re: Great SWT Program

From:

Lars Enderin <lars.enderin@gmail.com>

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comp.lang.java.programmer

Date:

Wed, 21 Nov 2007 16:02:56 GMT

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twerpinator@gmail.com skrev:

On Nov 19, 3:39 am, Lars Enderin <lars.ende...@gmail.com> wrote:

All of the above is built on your own perceptions of the tools.

No. It is based on reality.

You claim that only your perceptions reflect reality?

Since emacs (I have not used vim) has all the GUI features you praise, and a
vastly better command interface, your criticism is futile.

A bolted-on-afterthought "GUI" is scarcely better than the original
crummy text-mode interface to something like that. I've yet to see a
Windows or similar port of such a tool that didn't prove to be awkward

That is not an adequate or relevant characterization of emacs.

to use because a) the GUI is an afterthought and the app wasn't
designed from the ground up to be easily and effectively operated with
one, b) the GUI is poorly-constructed and non-native in various ways
and thus gets all sorts of things subtly wrong in ways that are
jarring and slow things down, and c) underlying bogosities in the
application cannot be covered by any amount of cosmetics, such as
wacky selection or clipboard semantics or broken backspace behavior or
whatever.

Points b and c just show your own perceptions. No facts. No objective
reality.