Re: Emacs learning curve

[Uday S Reddy]

On 7/15/2010 4:39 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>  From personal experience, it is not a disaster to use two different
> sets of keybindings.  Yes, sometimes you will err and curse.  But it
> won't let you abandon a tool that is otherwise useful.  Making Emacs
> extremely useful is therefore the single most important way of making
> it more popular among those who it targets.

In my humble opinion, the critics are right here.

I don't switch to new applications if their key bindings conflict with my Emacs 
neurons.  When I tried Eclipse, I quickly found the option to set Emacs key 
bindings and turned them on.  I was extremely irritated wherever it didn't 
match Emacs.

Just as Eclipse is kind to Emacs-users, I think Emacs should be kind to 
Eclipse-users too, and Windows-users and KDE-users and what have you. 
Obstinacy doesn't do us any good.

Cheers,
Uday