From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs as WM Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 05:58:20 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <87vbprtbp1.fsf@gmail.com> <87iolqr05k.wl%andres.ramirez@kipuamutay.com> <83mwb1dfmg.fsf@gnu.org> <87bnrha757.wl%andres.ramirez@kipuamutay.com> <87siktp9x3.fsf@gmail.com> <83egwdci46.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1408427926 23331 80.91.229.3 (19 Aug 2014 05:58:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 05:58:46 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 19 07:58:40 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XJcRK-0000C5-0G for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 07:58:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48304 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJcRJ-000357-Nk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 01:58:37 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55050) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJcRF-000350-Mg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 01:58:34 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJcRE-0008FE-OY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 01:58:33 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:53427) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XJcRE-0008F9-HW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 01:58:32 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XJcRD-00008M-6F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 07:58:31 +0200 Original-Received: from 94-21-227-224.pool.gnt.hu ([94-21-227-224.pool.gnt.hu]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 07:58:31 +0200 Original-Received: from adatgyujto by 94-21-227-224.pool.gnt.hu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2014 07:58:31 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 94.21.227.224 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:173758 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii gnu.org> writes: > > > 2) Most people who are a fan of WYSIWYG want a shallow learning curve > > with a shallow product. > > If you ever used Office, you know that's about as far from truth as > far can get. > It's well known that most users of Office use only a fraction of its capabilities, mainly those which are accessible from toolbar icons and top level menus and do not even know about its advances features. So while Office is a very sophisticated product, most users prefer it because of the simple point and click interface which does not require much learning to use.