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I think it's misguided to think of Emacs having moved away from the TUI paradigm at all. I have lived in Emacs for two years and have never even considered scr
by Syntonicles 3y ago
I think it's misguided to think of Emacs having moved away from the TUI paradigm at all. I have lived in Emacs for two years and have never even considered scrolling with my mouse. My hand never touches the mouse.
As I move through the document, I already have the location of the cursor origin saved in a register and can jump there, or any of several other locations with a single keypress.
I've always considered the mouse & menu system to be an emergency backup for beginners who have hit a wall. They will probably never be first class citizens.
What editor do you use?
- rgoulter 3y ago> I've always considered the mouse & menu system to be an emergency backup for beginners who have hit a wall. They will probably never be first class citizens. Perhaps, but ideally you'd want your on-ramp experience (or your gateway experience) to be smooth, rather than a full cold-turkey.
- MatthiasPortzel 3y agoThanks for sharing your view. I definitely prefer a GUI editor, I’m currently using Sublime. I was attracted to emacs because I like writing lisp and I hoped that the high level of customizability would let me smooth over any rough edges. But even though Sublime is not very flexile at all, it’s closer to what I want than I was able to script emacs to be.
- mcpackieh 3y agoImplying a dichotomy between TUI and mouse scrolling is very strange to me. I use my mouse to scroll in TUIs, including emacs, all the time. Emacs has full mouse support and scarcely discourages it's use.