Re: Emacs learning curve

[Lennart Borgman]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Alfred M. Szmidt <address@hidden> wrote:
>   > Can we please stop with the extravagant claim that new users are
>   > not attracted to emacs because of some idiosyncratic bindings?
>
>   That claim is extravagant indeed. The users are not attracted by
>   the idiosyncratic keybindings, they are *repelled* by them.
>
> Again, simply not true, please stop.  _Your_ experience might dictate
> things that are different frommine, but claiming that users are
> "repelled' is simply not true since new users use emacs.


Of course "repelled" and "attracted" should be thought of as forces.

So the claim that users are "repelled" by the keybindings can (and
probably IMO are) true even if new users use emacs.