Re: Elisp addiction not as bad in light of Linux forkoholism

[Loris Bennett]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Raffaele Ricciardi <rfflrccrd@gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 15:50:36 +0100
>> 
>> The problem is that old Emacs pros don't explain the Emacs work-flow to 
>> novices and therefore novices are left to "connect the dots" on their 
>> own.  When novices fail to connect some dots, they resort to configure 
>> Emacs to achieve some goals in a way that they know.
>
> That theory cannot explain how novices become "old pros".  At some
> point along the time line, the Emacs workflow becomes somehow known to
> yesterday's novices, and then they no longer need some or maybe most
> of those customizations.  But that can't happen by itself, so
> something is clearly missing in your hypothesis.

Some of us just become "old novices" with two decades worth of
cargo-cult cruft in our .emacs ...

Cheers,

Loris

PS: What's "the Emacs work-flow"?  Is it anything like the Swiss Army
Knife Workflow or the Kitchen Sink Workflow?

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