Re: "like other editors" [was: Re: Poll about proposed change in DEL (aka Backspace) and Delete]

[Suvayu Ali]

Hi Ken,

On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 09:18:11 -0400
ken <gebser@mousecar.com> wrote:

> Secondly, there are places in the world where people haven't ever
> used Windows; instead, their first and only experience with computers
> is with Linux.  What sense can it make to them that emacs' behavior
> is changed simply to mimic some other editor they've never seen or
> used?

You wrongly assumed by modern editors I was talking about Windows
editors[1], you can check out other FOSS editors (in fact they are
pretty good for relatively simple use) like Geany, Kate, Gedit, Nedit
(this is actually pretty old), text input windows of most file/web
browsers, many GUI email clients and so on. And most of the friends I
was trying to introduce to org-mode were *nix users already (yes there
are non-techie people using *nix, and yes they made the decision
without any "friendly help" guiding them in that direction).

No need to start a(n) argument/flame-war here, RMS asked users' opinion
and I expressed myself. Don't get me wrong, I love Emacs and I couldn't
manage to work without it. But the first day experience in Emacs is
definitely one of my worst. My opinion was based on that experience.

Cheers,

Footnotes:

[1] BTW, MS Word is not an editor, its a word processor a parallel in
    the FOSS world would be LibreOffice Writer.

-- 
Suvayu

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