![]() Use the Theme/Colors Options dialog to modify the built-in style colors. Styles provide a more consistent way to apply colors to variables that work better on different themes. Styles can now be applied to template variables using the syntax after a variable. Shortcut key support has also been improved. Right-click on the header of the Template Results to adjust the Column Display Format. ![]() The Template Results has a new style and the Type information has been moved to a separate column. The size and shape of the caret can be adjusted in the Editor Options dialog and block carets can be used as well. The caret is now a flashing vertical line in insert mode and an underscore in overwrite mode. For casual, unsophisticated applications by someone who grew up with green screen character based computers, it's probably OK.Introducing 010 Editor v14 with a new caret which is easier to see. For this reason, I would not recommend Emacs to anyone who is under 50 year old, or who needs power user capabilities. The things I just mentioned, are all present in some limited and inept form, but falls far short of current standard of good user interface design. ![]() To this day, it lacks or struggles with very basic things, like interactive dialogs, toolbars, tabbed interface, file system navigation, etc., etc. So Emacs does 5% or what an editor should do quite will, and is surprisingly under-powered and old fashioned at the other 95%. Unfortunately, it didn't keep up with the times and fails to take advantage of the entire world of GUI design that's revolutionized computer science since then. ![]() In fairness to Emacs, its original design was conceived in that context and is rather good at some things, like flexible ability to bind commands to keyboard shortcuts. User interface is terrible I was using Emacs in the early 1980's, before there were GUIs. ![]()
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