Thomas Willhalm wrote:
> fabien Henon wrote:
> 
>>>Steve wrote:
>>>But dont' get any ideas, I'm still going to use emacs forever:-)
>>>
>>
>>What a shame :(
> 
> 
> From your other posts it seems like completely frustrated about Emacs
> and I fully agree that Emacs sucks with respect to configuration. I'm
> using Emacs for more than five years now and still I'm having big problems
> to find out how I can change something or how I can do something for the
> first time.
> 
> However, I also agree with Steve that I will probably use Emacs forever
> -- also for writing povray scenes. This is not the case because Emacs is
> the best editor to write povray code, but because Emacs is the editor I
> use to write programs in C,C++, and Java, LaTeX and Lilypond files, 
> E-Mails and newsgroup articles. It's the editor I know. (Besides that
> it's also a kind of operating system because it runs a things like
> newsreader and tetris.)
> 
> The existence of people like me does not mean that Pyvon is useless.
> I appreciate your efforts because I know that there are a lot of others
> who are not familiar with Emacs. If such a person wants to use Povray,
> it would be a pity if he or she would be scared away by Emacs. A nice
> graphical interface - or more precisely a good editor that is tailored 
> to Povray - has been a great lack in the past on unix-like systems.
> 
> As I wouldn't recommend my Mom to use LaTeX to write a letter, I would
> recommend a newbie to Linux and Povray to use Emacs for their first
> scenes.
I guess you meant that you would *not* recommend a newbie to Linux and 
Povray to use Emacs.

  Nevertheless I'm using LaTeX and Emacs, but finally the fact
> that you have the choice is great IMO.
> 
> Thomas
>

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