On Sun, Jan 19, 2014 at 1:10 PM, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

>
> We could make an incompatible "simple" interface for Emacs and make it
> easy to learn.  It could look just like gedit, perhaps.
>
> It might be better, overall, if gedit were implemented as such an
> interface to Emacs.  I am not sure it would have been less work, though.
>

Perhaps it does not matter if it would have been less work in the
beginning. Perhaps the long term outcome matters more.


>
> However, if you change it that much, it won't give people an easy pathway
> to using Emacs.  Its commands would be all different.
>
> I see no reason the commands would be different. Not at the beginners
level.