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From: | Lennart Borgman (gmail) |
Subject: | Re: basic question: going back to dired |
Date: | Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:09:13 +0200 |
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Tim X wrote:
Agreed. I don't like Xah Lee's proposals. But I think that he's right that Emacs' use of outdated terminology sometimes hampers adoption by new users.so what? I'm not trying to be argumentative, but what does it reallymatter if new users have a bit of a learning curve?
I think many have tried to explain why it matters. Please see the archive in Emacs Devel and other places.
While probably sounding provocative, how many new uses who are not prepared to learn emacs terminology are actually going to contribute anything?
To understand this I think you have to consider psychology and how our brain works.
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