Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bu.edu!purdue!haven!mimsy!mimsy.umd.edu!mpf From: mpf@triplea.cs.umd.edu (Martin Farach) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Rich Text and comp.sys.next Message-ID: Date: 5 Dec 90 14:20:40 GMT References: <4196@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> <130125@gore.com> <1990Dec4.045426.28457@ni.umd.edu> <4164@network.ucsd.edu> Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742 Lines: 34 In article <4164@network.ucsd.edu> pbiron@weber.ucsd.edu (Paul Biron) writes: >In article <130125@gore.com> jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) writes: >>2. It annoys me that everybody, including NeXT, is going out of their way to >>improve the appearance of electronic communications, while sacrificing >>user's editing habits. I've been bitching about being unable to use Emacs >>to create messages ever since I started using the machine, in 0.8 days. >>Result from NeXT: none. Result from me: I don't use NeXT Mail. I have >>MMDF installed instead of sendmail, and I use msg to read and write mail. >>Msg respects users' preferences for various editors, while Mail sticks you >>with the Text object. > While I agree with both of you (except for me, it's vi instead of emacs that I want), I just wanted to make sure you were both aware of the KeyBindings default of Mail.app. From the online help for Mail.app (7.1, on Defaults): KeyBindings Emacs-style key bindings in the Send window The key point is that there is a lot more to Emacs than key bindings. There are all kinds of custimizations that can be done that really improve emacs and all kinds of functions without key bindings that I use on a regular basis. Therefore, even if under 2.0, the editor has "emacs-like" bindings, that doesn't make it Emacs. Martin Farach -- -- Martin Farach mpf@cs.umd.edu University of Maryland Department of Computer Science College Park, Maryland 20742