>>>>> "f" == florin <florin at iucha.net> writes: f> Mousing around is cool, but if you do some serious work, you will need a f> text editor like vim/emacs. And then you'll discover that there is no f> space on the screen to expose all their functionality in menus. And then f> you will undestand why you need a command line. I think the above is actually really off-base. There are ZILLIONS of people out there who use computers every day, all their working day, who've never gone near a command-line. And there are going to be more and more of them every day. Now, I'm not saying that *I* disagree with florin about what constitutes "serious work," but most of the world does. And it mostly involves engineering excel spreadsheets, writing Word documents, and making powerpoint presentations... I know people who use computers all the time who don't even know how to use the Windows Explorer or the Mac Finder ---- they just boot up their application and that's it. Cheers, R