The Modernization of Emacs

[David Golden]

Twisted wrote:

> If I sit down at a windows text editor (or 
> even kwrite or similar) I can just focus on the job. Faced with emacs
> or most other text-mode editors (but not MS-DOS Edit, interestingly)
> the editor keeps intruding on my focus. Oops.
> 

"emacs or most other text-mode editors" sounds very much like you
believe emacs works in a pure text mode too?  It can, of course, and
that's a good thing, but that's certainly not how I usually use it -
it has a GUI, you know.