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envelope-from=drew.adams@oracle.com; helo=userp2130.oracle.com X-Spam_score_int: -43 X-Spam_score: -4.4 X-Spam_bar: ---- X-Spam_report: (-4.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIMWL_WL_HIGH=-0.001, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H2=-0.001, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:125684 Archived-At: > My experience has been that as I got to do more things in emacs lisp, > the understanding needed quickly exceeded my rate of learning. I'd put it this way, speaking of myself and others I know: "the understanding possible quickly exceeded..." IOW, as usual in life, the more you know the more questions you have - and the more interesting the questions are. It's not so much that I _need_ to know all the stuff I've newly become aware of. It's that I _can_ learn it. And yes, sometimes it's not immediately obvious which of all the new info I glimpse on the horizon I really do need immediately. > One can get to sophisticated constructs, even when trying to do > relatively simple things. You never know where your original > plan could get you. Many times the importance of a work is not > measured by its consequences (i.e. by the final command). 100% agreement. But again, this is not a failing from the fact that all that additional info is _available_. It can be a failing if you can't see how you really want (or need) to proceed, to get to the info you most immediately need.