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From: | Lennart Borgman (gmail) |
Subject: | Re: Emacs usability |
Date: | Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:14:16 +0200 |
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Ted Zlatanov wrote:
The usability metrics (fairly standard in the industry) are listed in http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taouu/taouu.html#id2998837 so pleasesee their definitions.- concise - expressive - easy (in the sense of "mnemonic load") - transparent - scriptable - discoverable
An interesting list.
Emacs is concise, expressive, transparent, and scriptable.
Yes, mostly.
It's not easy or discoverable without baseline knowledge, which is difficult to acquire without reading the documentation (manuals, tutorials, or books).
It might not be easy to discover what the presumptive users baseline knowledge could be. This is a fundamental problem.
In effect, Emacs is more of a programming language than a normal user application as far as usability goes.
Yes, but it could be more.
Ted
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