From: "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Elisp addiction not as bad in light of Linux forkoholism
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 17:01:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871toiqbv3.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.15150.1417532856.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Raffaele Ricciardi <rfflrccrd@gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 15:50:36 +0100
>>
>> The problem is that old Emacs pros don't explain the Emacs work-flow to
>> novices and therefore novices are left to "connect the dots" on their
>> own. When novices fail to connect some dots, they resort to configure
>> Emacs to achieve some goals in a way that they know.
>
> That theory cannot explain how novices become "old pros". At some
> point along the time line, the Emacs workflow becomes somehow known to
> yesterday's novices, and then they no longer need some or maybe most
> of those customizations. But that can't happen by itself, so
> something is clearly missing in your hypothesis.
Some of us just become "old novices" with two decades worth of
cargo-cult cruft in our .emacs ...
Cheers,
Loris
PS: What's "the Emacs work-flow"? Is it anything like the Swiss Army
Knife Workflow or the Kitchen Sink Workflow?
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-30 0:06 Elisp addiction not as bad in light of Linux forkoholism Emanuel Berg
2014-11-30 1:22 ` Filipp Gunbin
[not found] ` <mailman.14979.1417310548.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-30 1:49 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-12-01 12:17 ` Filipp Gunbin
[not found] ` <mailman.15048.1417436297.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-12-12 2:07 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-11-30 5:16 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2014-11-30 6:05 ` Dan Espen
2014-11-30 14:56 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-11-30 17:04 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2014-12-01 17:56 ` Dan Espen
2014-12-01 18:41 ` Rostislav Svoboda
[not found] ` <mailman.15078.1417459356.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-12-01 20:13 ` Dan Espen
2014-12-12 2:09 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-11-30 14:51 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-12-12 3:42 ` Emacs and Unix (was: Re: Elisp addiction not as bad in light of Linux forkoholism) Emanuel Berg
2014-11-30 16:14 ` Elisp addiction not as bad in light of Linux forkoholism Marcin Borkowski
[not found] ` <mailman.15000.1417364114.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-30 17:35 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-11-30 18:36 ` Marcin Borkowski
2014-11-30 19:27 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
[not found] ` <mailman.15012.1417375681.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-30 19:43 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-11-30 20:18 ` Marcin Borkowski
[not found] ` <mailman.15021.1417378703.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-30 22:21 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-11-30 22:30 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
[not found] ` <mailman.15028.1417386648.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-12-12 1:55 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.15006.1417372637.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-30 19:41 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-11-30 18:16 ` Nikolay Kudryavtsev
[not found] ` <mailman.15002.1417371387.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-30 18:32 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-12-02 14:50 ` Raffaele Ricciardi
2014-12-02 15:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.15150.1417532856.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-12-02 16:01 ` Loris Bennett [this message]
2014-12-02 17:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-12-03 1:44 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.15187.1417571105.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-12-12 2:38 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-12-12 2:17 ` Emanuel Berg
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