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From: Hans BKK <hansbkk@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Helm (and?) or Icicles (possibly using Evil)
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2014 08:53:39 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b3648f59-657d-49c3-aae2-2cf414f76c21@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4cd079bd-9978-422f-9449-51d8fbe76485@googlegroups.com>

On Saturday, April 26, 2014 6:58:39 PM UTC-4, Emanuel Berg wrote:

> OK, I'll make this more simple: 

> When you wrote the above paragraph, what program did 
you use? 

> And when you sent the mail (or post), again, what 
program did you use? 

> That simple. 

> If you are using Emacs, in a way you are doing the right thing, but actually everything will be clear in time, so you can just relax :) 

> If you are not using Emacs, and instead are using Vim and Thunderbird or something like that - you should either 1) stop doing that, or 2) join newsgroups/listbots for *those* applications - what's the purpose theorizing about an application you don't even use? 

-------------

I may very well end up using emacs for dozens of different functions without ever using it for email or usenet.

You're really telling newbies they have to start straight off using emacs for everything it's capable of doing before they've learned anything about the environment itself via their own approach?



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-04-28 15:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-04-23 13:20 Helm (and?) or Icicles (possibly using Evil) Hans BKK
2014-04-23 15:59 ` Drew Adams
2014-04-24  2:51 ` Hans BKK
2014-04-24 13:53   ` Drew Adams
2014-04-24 17:48   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
     [not found]   ` <mailman.11.1398388920.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-04-25 16:17     ` Emanuel Berg
2014-04-27 20:09   ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-04-28 13:45     ` Le Wang
2014-04-28 14:05       ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-04-26 21:31 ` Hans BKK
2014-04-26 22:38   ` Emanuel Berg
2014-04-26 22:58   ` Emanuel Berg
2014-04-28 11:06 ` Hans BKK
2014-04-28 13:52   ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-04-28 15:45 ` Hans BKK
2014-04-28 15:53 ` Hans BKK [this message]
2014-04-28 23:07   ` Emanuel Berg

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