Re: Emacs newbie - Syntax Highlighting and Indentation

[David Rasmussen <david.rasmussen@gmx.net>]

Peter S Galbraith wrote:
> 
> The nice thing about looking at the custom interface once in a while is
> that it makes a nice summary of features in one place.  You learn a lot
> about what's available by looking at it.
> 

Good point.

And I'd say: Would it kill emacs to have menus on all platforms, even in 
the console? They could just stay out of the way most of the time, and 
only pop up when requested. There is no reason why emacs couldn't have a 
layered architeture, in terms of usability. That is, there is no way why 
  the most common operations shouldn't be fairly easy to figure out and 
perform, even for a newbie. Advanced features shouldn't stand in the way 
for simple features.

But I like emacs so far. I don't know why, but I seem to be able to 
learn and remember stuff faster than with vim. Weird.

/David