On Sun, 2007-17-06 at 22:37 +0100, David House wrote:

 > Well, part 1 would be being *graphical*. I really have no time for ugly 
 > cryptic ASCII art "graphical" UIs... I just like being able to *see* 
 > what's happening. Is that too much to ask?

Did you read the rest of my email? For every feature you cited I gave links and
screenshots to the Emacs equivalents, none of which (AFAIK -- I don't actually
use them all) use ASCII art.

Got a file chooser that's actually a GUI that has the look and feel of every other GUI file chooser in existence? Because what I see in emacs now that I've got the X version working (aside from horrible, ugly, unreadable fonts -- again the Notepad of the GNOME world is kicking ass and taking names here!) is a half-assed GUI wrapped around a plain text-dominated interface. Kind of what you'd expect from people who think that GUIs are a waste of time and put one in just to say "we've got a GUI -- what are you talking about?"

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