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Re: I wrote a mini manual for Emacs
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Rusi |
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Re: I wrote a mini manual for Emacs |
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Mon, 16 Jun 2014 20:00:24 -0700 (PDT) |
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On Tuesday, June 17, 2014 8:07:12 AM UTC+5:30, Tu Do wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 1:11 AM, MBR wrote:
> > Good work!
> > I'd like to say something about the section ""I don't want a complicated
> > 'editor', I want something simple like Notepad(++)" in which you talk about
> > IDEs. When I started using Emacs (after about 10 years of using vi), I
> > immediately noticed that Emacs was very different from any other editor I'd
> > ever worked with. With all other editors, I'd use them for editing text
> > and do everything else from a shell prompt.
> Well, I did in the section "Why Emacs?" at the beginning, emphasized that
> Emacs is not a mere editor but a programming platform and has relation to
> Lisp Machine. However, someone said that is not good for beginners to put
> non-starter stuffs there. So I moved it to the appendix.
I think thats a good choice. In my 20+ years of using emacs and
convincing others (mostly unsuccessfully) to use it Ive found that
showing emacs' power is usually a put-off more than an attraction.
People say: «Look I ONLY want to do "..."! Why all this "..." »
रुसि [Just to make GG behave itself!]
- Re: I wrote a mini manual for Emacs, (continued)
Re: I wrote a mini manual for Emacs, MBR, 2014/06/16
Re: I wrote a mini manual for Emacs, Yuri Khan, 2014/06/16
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