Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly

[PT]

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:42:38 +0100, Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@glug.org> wrote:

> PT <mailshield.gg@mailnull.com> writes:
>
> > Sigh. When some people sees how I work with Emacs they want to learn
> > it.  The idea is to relieve the initial pain of meeting Emacs the
> > first time, so that they don't give it up in disgust, before they get
> > to know it better.
>
> at some point everyone gives up (perhaps in disgust) on something,
> instead of getting to know it better.

Exactly. My heretic idea is to rethink the whole Emacs interface  
(defaults, keybindings). Make the default Emacs very similary to modern  
CUA-based applications. Give less reason for the newbies to give up in  
disgust.

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