mailing-list for TeXmacs Users

[Mark Arrasmith <address@hidden>]

On Wednesday 20 October 2004 10:21 am, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 09:31:26AM +0200, Nicolas Ratier wrote:
> >> a _separate_ "CUA/Windows" keybinding style would make you even happier?
> >
> > That a good solution, I use TeXmacs under Suse/KDE, for memory the
> > following keys are the standard shortcut key bindings included in
> > the KDE distribution.
>
> Of CUA/Windowsy inspiration and in total break with any kind of Unixy
> inspiration. How these people can claim they are developing a Desktop
> for Unix with a straight face is beyond me.

Well it is hard to move people from Windows to Linux if they have to relearn 
keybinding.  Actually, I should say it is hard to move math professors, 50 - 
70 year old math professors,  who have spent the last 10 years learning 
Windows keybinding onto Linux if they have to relearn what is basically a 
physical memory.

A 60 year old math professor might stand over my sholder and say "That sure 
is 
a nice program".  But they get frustrated and dump it because it doesn't act 
like any programs they know.  And new users want a desktop environment like 
KDE or GNOME.  And TeXmacs is geared towards them, but it doesn't act like 
KDE or GNOME.

Right now graduate students in the department complain if I forget to install 
TeXmacs for them because they can learn to live with the differences.  But 
not people who are set in their ways. 

> > How many people would like to use these keys with TeXmacs ?
>
> <troll mood="excessively aggressive and insulting">
>  One.
> </troll>

At least two :)

- mark