Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs

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> But isn't that what describe-function or describe-variable are for?

First you have to know what you want to describe.  How is one to discover 
what functions, variables, etc are available?  After decades of using 
emacs, I'm still sometimes surprised by discovering something I didn't know 
about and would never have thought to "describe".

I'm not in the midst of a community of emacs users, so asking questions and 
learning new things is a rather heavyweight process for me -- there's no 
one to look over my shoulder and make suggestions.  That, and the 
difficulty of emacs documentation, have been a real hindrance to my 
becoming a better programmer of emacs.

But I'll still take it over anything else I know of.  Power to the people!

djc