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- From: bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan)
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: Terminal vs. workstations productivity
- Message-ID: <BEVAN.92Nov6204326@hippo.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 20:43:26 GMT
- References: <BEVAN.92Nov3232420@hippo.cs.man.ac.uk>
- <1992Nov6.075017.22154@informatik.uni-bremen.de>
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- Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
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- In-reply-to: mfr@Informatik.Uni-Bremen.DE.'s message of 6 Nov 92 07:50:17 GMT
-
- In article <1992Nov6.075017.22154@informatik.uni-bremen.de> mfr@Informatik.Uni-Bremen.DE. (Michael Froehlich) writes:
- In article 92Nov3232420@hippo.cs.man.ac.uk, bevan@cs.man.ac.uk (Stephen J Bevan) writes:
- >In article <1992Oct30.000254.15144@den.mmc.com> richard@crowded-house.den.mmc.com (Richard Armstrong) writes:
- [ would be much more productive if had an X-terminal ]
- [ maybe, but a two windows as provided by Emacs would have sufficed ]
-
- Yes, of course. That's a great solution.
- I know a lot of people tieing their shoe-laces with a pair of pincers :-)
-
- I thought the usual complaint was that (GNU) Emacs was much to large
- and so a better analogy would be tying your shoelaces with a robot arm
- hooked up to some virtual reality kit.
-
- I put the ":-)" on my original message because I know that some people
- can get very agitated about it. However, the suggestion is serious.
- Of course, it makes no sense if you _just_ use Emacs as a dumb window
- system, you have to enter the culture and use it to its full
- capabilities to justify its resource usage. You have to stop thinking
- of Emacs as an "editor" and start thinking of it as a CASE tool.
- Granted on its own it doesn't match production enviroments (for
- example Rational) but it is extensible and it is difficult to beat it
- on price :-)
-
- bevan
-