I didn't say anything about emacs. emacs has plenty of problems of its own. > But what is the alternative? It takes some outside-the-box thinking. Here's an a

I didn't say anything about emacs. emacs has plenty of problems of its own. > But what is the alternative? It takes some outside-the-box thinking. Here's an article by Larry Tesler, of Xerox PARC and original-Macintosh-team fame, on how his desire to build a modeless text editor led to the invention of copy-and-paste: http://worrydream.com/refs/Tesler%20-%20A%20Personal%20History%20of%20Modeless%20Text%20Editing%20and%20Cut-Copy-Paste.pdf http://worrydream.com/refs/Tesler%20-%20A%20Personal%20Histo...