Re: Some remarks to pgadmin III

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andreas Pflug [mailto:pgadmin(at)pse-consulting(dot)de]
> Sent: 15 August 2003 11:43
> To: Dave Page
> Cc: pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [pgadmin-hackers] Some remarks to pgadmin III
>
>
> Dave Page wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >>While I'm thinking again about that... We don't really like M$,
> >>so we should stick to the global emacs keyboard standard I
> >>believe. I'm just reassigning all keyboard mappings for pgAdmin3.
> >>Emacs is available on all platforms, so we should adopt that, don't
> >>you think? I'm an old Emacs fan either, and Ctrl-Y for "Yank" is
> >>much more intuitive than Ctrl-V for "Paste".
> >>
> >>
> >
> >I'll assume that's a joke in rather poor taste :-p
> >
> >
> I _never_ make jokes about Emacs, how in hell did you get
> that impression?

You said you were going to change the shortcut keys from those known by
probably the vast majority of computer users in the world - on Windows,
KDE and other system - (and certainly the vast majority of pgAdmin
users) to a standard used by an editor rarely used on the most popular
PC OS, and either loved _or_ hated by those that use it on other OSen.

> Emacs is the first and best editor ever,
> I've been using it since 1983
> on the Atari ST. Let's evangelize the world! We now have PostgreSQL,
> PostgrEMACS is the future.

Yuh.

/D