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> 	I've used X minimally (maybe I'll use it more when I get this
> Diamond SpeedSTAR 24 to work with 1024*768), and have found it very usefull.
> It's nice to have 3 xterms up and running (and being able to see them while
> I'm in another window) that still give me the CLI interface I NEED to develop.
> I can't use a GUI to do debugging or editting - I still use TECO which is a
> CLI based editor (even though I've made it do a LOT more than DEC's TECO in 
> the area of on-screen editting). I have to use my HANDS - I have a much 
> clearer view IN MY HEAD of what I'm trying to accomplish than any GUI
> programmer could provide me with. I've setup things under X that greatly
> improve things, but this is all because of the fact that I can SEE three
> or more things at once. 

Your tools are CLI type tools, so it is not suprising you like CLI interface.
I think that the important word is not GUI, but direct manipulation,
and how to make it easy (and fast). Try sometimes to use your X enviroment
more than just to see more. I don't find icons, buttons and pretty pictures
etc so important, but to use mouse AND keyboard to handle something
on the screen (even if it is only text) is faster than only with
keyboard, when you are good at using both and you know when to use
mouse (and you use software that doesn't prevent it).

I use a GUI enviroment as my frontend to our unix etc machines and
at least I have found this mixed CLI - GUI enviroment good.

Jorma jopa@th.tele.fi
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