From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brian Elmegaard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly Date: 20 Mar 2005 13:33:40 +0100 Message-ID: References: <874qf8d3cy.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> <87acozbp0v.fsf@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111323040 28761 80.91.229.2 (20 Mar 2005 12:50:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 12:50:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 20 13:50:39 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCzt4-0002Qk-PT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 13:50:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DD09x-0006mW-8X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 08:08:01 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!uninett.no!news.net.uni-c.dk!sunsite.dk!dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.166.154.230 Original-X-Trace: DXC=WEh`^m7efQh; WQX List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:25025 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25025 Lee Sau Dan writes: > I like Emacs the way it is: > I don't care. Me too. But, the students I force to use emacs for simulation (http://www.et.dtu.dk/software/dna) don't like it. I would very much like a different situation than I am in now. The students very much would like another, more "normal" editor. So probably I ought to work in emacs to develop an editor looking and feeling more as anything else and distribute the program with that, instead of the ideal situation: Have them work in emacs too and over time learn all the great features, but start out on something appealing to people coming from MS word. -- Brian (remove the sport for mail) http://www.et.dtu.dk/staff/be/be.html