From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: basic question: going back to dired Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 22:18:40 +1000 Organization: Rapt Technologies Message-ID: <87y73rzd9b.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: <4884DC7F.6060406@gmail.com> <819feff4-76e3-4bf8-9ece-7b47f099efc2@j22g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> <87mykaw8sb.fsf@nonospaz.fatphil.org> <87myk828zm.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216903329 3590 80.91.229.12 (24 Jul 2008 12:42:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:42:09 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 24 14:42:58 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 1KM09b-0000v5-8d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:42:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41672 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KM08h-0000MT-ON for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:41:47 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!news.astraweb.com!border1.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ff8I0frlPOTFFk8k2ZMOfh1wXmg= Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 65e9c5e9.news.astraweb.com Original-X-Trace: DXC=Al]5_OiNSY`NIa8EGN3lWcL?0kYOcDh@j]WEZ@Q1WnGe8P?8[VnF4CgRTFYYW29Y\j[gcfJ3S]F3i Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:160550 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:55897 Archived-At: Bastien writes: > "Juanma Barranquero" writes: > >> I worry about the people who simply leaves Emacs behind. > > The learning curve might be one problem. > The absence of some features the user want is another one. > > If Emacs implements a feature that no other editor implements > then the user is usually not fussy about the learning curve. > > So instead of always trying to lessen the difficulty of learning > Emacs, I think we should concentrate on features that users want > (like CEDET, Tabs, etc.) > > Those who say "Hey! The learning curve is too high." are those > who don't really want/need Emacs. Exactly. Well said. Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au