[Ilugc] Re: Emacs, Lisp and GUI

[Sridhar R]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 07:35:25 +0530, Joe Steeve <joe_steeve at gmx.net> wrote:
> Sridhar R <sridharinfinity at gmail.com> writes:
> > Writing a good GUI layer over Emacs (gtk2 is in gnu emacs cvs)
> > with excellent UI is what is needed now.  Emacs is extensible
> 
> Hmm.. Emacs is beautiful the way it is. It does have menus to
> execute most of the commands, but that is not the preferred
> way. As one starts using Emacs a lot, you'll find that you wont
> feel like moving your hands off the keyboard. You'll try to find
> the keystroke to get a command done rather than move the mouse all
> the way to the menus and get the command.

This is good for experienced or determined users, but to attract
newbies and for starter experience a good GUI is essential and current
one is not that good (compare the GUI of IntelliJ and Emacs [1] )

[1] Projects 'cedet' are nothing but ugly hack when it comes to
rendering (they should use API like gtk+ for GUI, not some ugly X11
draw hack)

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Sridhar R - http://cs.annauniv.edu/~rsridhar
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