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Re: Is there any good website for emacs newbie?
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Sebastian Tennant |
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Re: Is there any good website for emacs newbie? |
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Fri, 04 May 2007 23:33:07 +0300 |
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Quoth William Case <billlinux@rogers.com>:
> It's Friday afternoon, I live in a government city (Ottawa) so all work
> has stopped, and your dealing with a recent Emacs zealot.
It's nearly midnight in İstanbul (that's Istanbul in case Unicode
doesn't work for you) and everyone I know is out drinking.
>> Don't you think we should be careful with the 'it's really simple'
>> language beacuse it's definitely _not_ simple to a newcomer?
>>
> Your right. One shouldn't confuse simplicity with easy.
Language (at least the English language) let's us down at this point.
>> P.S. That double-entry bookkeeping thing... How about an 'off-topic'
>> thread so that we can all impress our bank managers ;-) Ah,
>> those were the days...
>
> I was trying to use the metaphor to say Emacs is difficult as long as
> you bring a lot of incorrect assumption to it. Its worth sticking at it
> until the day of "epiphany" when you finally get it (the actual
> simplicity of the thing with no assumptions needed). At least that was
> how it worked for me with debits and credits, and Emacs.
The only assumptions I bring to accounting are that the whole thing is
a waste of time! As people will begin to realise when we start running
Economy 2.0 :-)
Sebastian
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Re: Is there any good website for emacs newbie?, don provan, 2007/05/09