"Help is a combination of editor, window system, shell, and user interface that provides a novel environment for the construction of textual applications such as browsers, debuggers, mailers, and so on."
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"Where will we be ten years from now? CRT’s will be a thing of the past, multimedia will no longer be a buzzword, pen-based and voice input will be everywhere, and university students will still be editing with emacs."
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"Pens and touchscreens are too low-bandwidth for real interaction; voice will probably also turn out to be inadequate." From 1991!
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TempleOS seemed to have the same design philosophy. Some of its features, like allowing embedding an image inline with the text, and having hypertext links everywhere (somewhat like man pages) is pretty helpful. Modern IDEs should take cue from it and emacs. Imho.
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Only downside of having busy universal UI is that sometimes it feels like I’m trapped - paying for a lot of screen real estate for basically what amounts for a stand-by capability (something I only use very infrequently)
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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