Text Editor for Linux 3410
I don't agree with your last sentence. Editors are not the only complex programs around, but they are a good example of a program that is necessarily very complex *if* the program is sufficiently functional.
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Eh? You are avoiding the problem, not fixing it.
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But any editor worth using *necessarily* does have a very very steep learning curve.
Jove, is of course just another emacs, which proves my point. In 1985 I'd been using an emacs editor for...
Clearly not. You've continued to talk about "Unix philosophy", as if that were more important the getting work done, and about "bloat"... on machines that commonly have 1-2 a gigabyte or more of RAM.
GNUS has nothing to do with editing functionality. The normal editor that I run (gnuclient, which connects to an instance of XEmacs that is run specifically as a server) does not run GNUS, ever.
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But I also have an instance of XEmacs running (virtually all of the time) which is used exclusively for email and Usenet, and that of course is running GNUS. That is because while GNUS has nothing to do with editing, editing has *everything* to do with both email and Usenet. I use GNUS because it is the best email-news program available. A significant part of that is integration with the editor... though actually it isn't the editor as such, so much as the eLisp interpreter, which give it a great deal of flexibility.
Functionality. It's what counts, not some attachment to ideology.
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A point the OP needs to separate from the chaff being tossed his direction.
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