Re: Seeking computer-programming job (Sunnyvale, CA)

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=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>

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Mon, 18 May 2009 21:38:38 -0400

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Series Expansion wrote:

On May 17, 3:09 am, gugamilare <gugamil...@gmail.com> wrote:

On 17 maio, 03:55, Series Expansion <sere...@gmail.com> wrote:

On May 16, 4:42 pm, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)

I agree that GUI are generaly nice. Unfortunately they're also less
productive than CLI.

You mean, more productive. GUIs provide a lot of productivity
benefits:
* Increased screen real-estate for text. Instead of a smallish rigid
  rectangular grid of ASCII characters you can have quite a large
  grid, and you can use a proportional font and ditch the grid
  constraint.

Emacs can also have a large grid.

It is limited by the text modes the hardware can support. A graphics
display, especially using a proportional font, can easily have three
times the number of columns and double the number of rows; six times
the total effective display area.

It has windows.

Faking windows with ASCII has been done before, and always fails to
impress, or to achieve as high a level of usability as an actual GUI.

Emacs has been running on X for 20 years (give or take a few).

* Ability to display much larger character sets, foreign characters
  for instance. The best pre-graphics systems could display sometimes
  several of the European languages, though only one at a time, by
  supporting a choice of code pages. GUIs can display the whole of
  Unicode, including the very large character sets used in
  far-Eastern languages, and mix them all seamlessly (modulo
  reading-order differences).

Don't you think Emacs has Unicode support?

Of course not. An ASCII editor lacks Unicode support by definition.

Wrong on two counts:
* Emacs is not (entirely) an a text mode editor
* A text mode editor can support Unicode fine vi UTF-8

[and the rest is just as wrong]

Arne