On Tuesday 16 April 2002 07:59, Doug McGarrett wrote: - Why would any sane person try to learn emacs when there are so many simple - GUI word processors and even low level text editors that are easily accessable - available?
I personally have yet to find anything that can handle all the different Japanese encodings (EUC, JIS, S-JIS, etc.) as flawlessly Xemacs (I'm guessing Emacs pulls this task off just as well). I have yet to open a document containing Japanese text under Xemacs and find myself looking at a screen of junk. Also, the flexibility of (X)Emacs (lisp) lets me incorporate Eng/Jp dictionary functionality (via EDICT-thanks M. Fabian!). Anyway, I'm grateful there's such a selection of editors out there even if I don't choose to use most of them. Just my 2 cents. Eric __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/