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I would like to add one more: text is far easier to edit than graphics and everyone can do it without mouse. I guess at this point both Emacs and Vim users are
by wangii 10y ago
I would like to add one more: text is far easier to edit than graphics and everyone can do it without mouse. I guess at this point both Emacs and Vim users are united.
- vogt 10y agoThe nuance both you and the parent commenter are missing is that editing text feels like a chore to Joe/Jane User, and controlling a GUI doesn't.
- dredmorbius 10y agoSimple GUI manipulation is easy. Repetitive or complex GUI manipulation rapidly gets tedious or intractable. There are reasons people adopted powerful symbolic representations and operators. These have learning curves, yes, but also very high payoff functions.