Re: Emacs learning curve

[David Kastrup]

Teemu Likonen <address@hidden> writes:

> I'm not sure what you mean by context here but maybe you are right that
> touch typing reduces the difficulty. I have been touch typing since
> 1992. I used Vim for five years and then switched to Emacs for its great
> extensions and extensibility. Of course I have learned Emacs keys and be
> efficient with them but I already had a great motivation to learn Emacs
> for its other features. I never learned to _like_ Emacs movement keys
> and feel that they are just tolerable or manageable compared to Vim.
>
>    (I believe that there would be noticeable new interest towards Emacs
>     if it, for example, announced that its version 25.1 has added a mode
>     that switches to ergonomic key bindings.)

Get off it.  You already got crisp-mode, viper-mode, vi-mode, vip-mode,
wordstar-mode, tpu-edt-on, edt-emulation-on.

None of those have made much of an impact, even though viper-mode is
supposed to have non-zero users.

-- 
David Kastrup