Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 05, 2004 10:47 PM
You're basically arguing that you'd rather use an office suite or wordprocessor than a text editor. That's like saying why would I use EDIT.EXE (or Notepad) when I have Microsoft Office?
To me, an Office Suite is a waste of time for I do. I mostly just edit text files. And I do it remotely. It's much nicer to be able to SSH in and run Emacs from anywhere, and all my documents are in the same place. Sure, I could remote access the GUI, but that is slow and doesn't feel right, and not fun when you have a slow connection.
Yeah, GUI is important, but so is the command-line. Don't ignore the command-line like some distros are trying to do.
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Re:Thankyou Robin for an honest summation
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 05, 2004 10:47 PMTo me, an Office Suite is a waste of time for I do. I mostly just edit text files. And I do it remotely. It's much nicer to be able to SSH in and run Emacs from anywhere, and all my documents are in the same place. Sure, I could remote access the GUI, but that is slow and doesn't feel right, and not fun when you have a slow connection.
Yeah, GUI is important, but so is the command-line. Don't ignore the command-line like some distros are trying to do.
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