Re: Is there any good website for emacs newbie?

[Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com>]

Quoth William Case <billlinux@rogers.com>:
> It's Friday afternoon, I live in a government city (Ottawa) so all work
> has stopped, and your dealing with a recent Emacs zealot.

It's nearly midnight in İstanbul (that's Istanbul in case Unicode
doesn't work for you) and everyone I know is out drinking.

>> Don't you think we should be careful with the 'it's really simple'
>> language beacuse it's definitely _not_ simple to a newcomer?
>> 
> Your right.  One shouldn't confuse simplicity with easy.

Language (at least the English language) let's us down at this point.

>> P.S. That double-entry bookkeeping thing... How about an 'off-topic'
>>      thread so that we can all impress our bank managers ;-)  Ah,
>>      those were the days...
>
> I was trying to use the metaphor to say Emacs is difficult as long as
> you bring a lot of incorrect assumption to it.  Its worth sticking at it
> until the day of "epiphany" when you finally get it (the actual
> simplicity of the thing with no assumptions needed).  At least that was
> how it worked for me with debits and credits, and Emacs.

The only assumptions I bring to accounting are that the whole thing is
a waste of time!  As people will begin to realise when we start running
Economy 2.0 :-)

Sebastian