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From: "akaiser@visi.com" <akaiser@visi.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 20:10:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e_mdnaP6e5yCjzTWnZ2dnUVZ7qqdnZ2d@posted.visi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3tys7hqnv.fsf@logrus.localdomain>

> But isn't that what describe-function or describe-variable are for?

First you have to know what you want to describe.  How is one to discover 
what functions, variables, etc are available?  After decades of using 
emacs, I'm still sometimes surprised by discovering something I didn't know 
about and would never have thought to "describe".

I'm not in the midst of a community of emacs users, so asking questions and 
learning new things is a rather heavyweight process for me -- there's no 
one to look over my shoulder and make suggestions.  That, and the 
difficulty of emacs documentation, have been a real hindrance to my 
becoming a better programmer of emacs.

But I'll still take it over anything else I know of.  Power to the people!

djc


  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-23 19:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-21 19:02 Failing to see the allure of Emacs Daniel
2010-03-21 20:22 ` David Kastrup
2010-03-21 20:47 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-03-21 21:00 ` akaiser
2010-03-21 21:26   ` Daniel
2010-03-21 22:16     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-03-22  4:05       ` Uday S Reddy
2010-03-21 22:21   ` David Kastrup
2010-03-23 17:22     ` akaiser
2010-03-23 17:52       ` Jeff Clough
2010-03-23 19:10         ` akaiser [this message]
2010-03-23 19:32       ` Uday S Reddy
2010-03-23 23:00       ` David Kastrup
2010-03-24 21:40         ` Tim X
2010-03-24 22:00         ` akaiser
2010-03-25  0:28           ` Jason Rumney
2010-03-25  1:03           ` Jay Belanger
2010-03-25  1:27           ` despen
2010-03-25  8:42           ` Tim X
2010-03-25  9:19             ` akaiser
2010-03-25 10:01               ` David Kastrup
2010-03-25 10:09                 ` akaiser
2010-03-27 20:59               ` Giorgos Keramidas
2010-04-07  5:36                 ` David Kastrup
2010-03-25  9:41             ` akaiser
2010-03-25 12:17               ` Tim Landscheidt
2010-03-25 12:24                 ` akaiser
2010-05-04 19:03                   ` Lennart Borgman
     [not found]                   ` <mailman.28.1272999835.29092.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-05-05  7:15                     ` David Kastrup
2010-05-05 20:40                       ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-25 12:45               ` Jay Belanger
2010-03-25 18:31               ` Uday S Reddy
2010-03-25 14:07           ` Ted Zlatanov
2010-03-25 14:49             ` David Kastrup
2010-03-26  4:14           ` Galen Boyer
2010-05-05 17:27           ` Joel J. Adamson
2010-03-21 21:02 ` Jeff Clough
2010-03-21 22:09   ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-03-21 22:35     ` B. T. Raven
2010-03-21 22:45       ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2010-03-22  0:21         ` Jeff Clough
2010-03-22  4:45           ` B. T. Raven
2010-05-22  2:38       ` Joseph Brenner
2010-03-21 22:58     ` John Bokma
2010-04-20 13:04   ` Jim Diamond
2010-04-20 17:15     ` Andreas Politz
2010-04-20 17:34       ` Jeff Clough
2010-04-21 14:26       ` Jim Diamond
2010-04-20 17:36     ` Glenn Morris
2010-04-21 14:31       ` Jim Diamond
2010-04-21 18:23         ` Stefan Monnier
2010-04-22 15:27           ` Uday S Reddy
2010-04-20 22:37     ` Tim X
2010-03-21 22:41 ` despen
2010-03-22 11:59 ` Stefan Kamphausen

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