From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sebastian Tennant Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Beginning Hobbyist Programmer Question Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:24:04 +0200 Message-ID: <87y7ahrcy3.fsf@moley.moleskin.org> References: <44129c70-807a-4ef0-bc4f-e299caf5e334@k39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1201022686 6888 80.91.229.12 (22 Jan 2008 17:24:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:24:46 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 22 18:25:06 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JHMrx-0001fr-6I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:25:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JHMrX-0005g3-Ex for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:24:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JHMrG-0005fB-P1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:24:23 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JHMrF-0005eP-GD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:24:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JHMrF-0005e6-3J for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:24:21 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JHMrE-0002fa-MB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:24:21 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JHMr9-0003GL-9u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:24:15 +0000 Original-Received: from 85.105.17.65 ([85.105.17.65]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:24:15 +0000 Original-Received: from sebyte by 85.105.17.65 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 17:24:15 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 85.105.17.65 User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0J2Vputag/VfujryCjzS7I4pirI= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:50865 Archived-At: Quoth signups17@gmail.com: > Can anyone provide a cogent explanation for why I should take the time > to climb that learning curve? Well, it'll take a while, and by the sound of it your time is pretty damn important, so I suggest you get back to what you were doing. > What are the benefits, as you see them? Emacs is quite simply the most universally useful program ever written. Sebastian