Re: too many buffers

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Elena <egarrulo@gmail.com> writes:

> On Dec 2, 7:58 am, Tim X <t...@nospam.dev.null> wrote:
>> A major mistake made by new users is to try and make emacs like every
>> other editor or even like an IDE. This is a mistake.
>>
>> Emacs is liked by many because it is very different. Others don't like
>> the difference and for htem, it is not the right editor. However, if you
>> start by trying to make it just like everything else your use to, you
>> will miss the opportunity of experiencing something different and new
>> which may turn out to be better than what your familiar with - provided
>> you give it a chance.
>
> Problem is: this Emacs uniqueness is not documented anywhere.  All
> IDEs look alike because they follow a design pattern which works.
> There are tons of usability studies done on this.  OTOH, how would you
> develop a project following the Emacs way?  Nobody knows.  Every
> Emacser reinvents the wheel.

No, no, no.  It's the others who reinvented the wheel.  Emacs was there
before the GUI IDE. They could have copied emacs (or the Lisp Machine),
but no, they had to reinvent the wheel...

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__Pascal Bourguignon__                     http://www.informatimago.com/
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