Re: Emacs history, and "Is Emacs difficult to learn?"

[drain <aeuster@gmail.com>]

> Isn't a thesis something LaTeX would be the natural choice for,
> with its from-the-shelf support for a ToC, headers (of all sorts),
> footnotes, references, etc.? Of which so much is automated to a
> very high degree? 

I prefer the minimalism of org-mode. LaTex clutters the buffer with code.
Secondly, I don't even like the output. I wish all books would be printed
org-mode documents. Clean and pure. Org-mode should be the standard visual
grammar.

> Yes, I think videos are great for this! At least if the person who
> makes the video has the real Emacs fingers, moving the cursor at
> Jedi-master speed, killing, yanking, filling, other window,
> reading mail, sending a Usenet post, evaluating some Elisp defun,
> 1-2-3, KO. Irresistible to any and all true techno-warriors.

Yes, I often treat my videos as performances: like speed runs of Quake.
Although not quite, since Emacs has better gameplay.

> I[f] done well, I don't think there even need to be a speaker's voice
> explaining what happens. Just the sound from the keyboard and some
> techno-eurodisco-trance song to get the bloodlust going.

I have a scratch.org buffer I continuously switch to: I use this to explain
what I am doing (and also to showoff rapid buffer switching). I /hate/
videos
with any music though. 

The point is, Emacs should speak for itself.



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