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From: | PT |
Subject: | Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly |
Date: | Sat, 19 Mar 2005 15:56:52 +0100 |
User-agent: | Opera M2/7.54 (Win32, build 3865) |
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:42:38 +0100, Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@glug.org> wrote:
PT <mailshield.gg@mailnull.com> writes:Sigh. When some people sees how I work with Emacs they want to learn it. The idea is to relieve the initial pain of meeting Emacs the first time, so that they don't give it up in disgust, before they get to know it better.at some point everyone gives up (perhaps in disgust) on something, instead of getting to know it better.
Exactly. My heretic idea is to rethink the whole Emacs interface (defaults, keybindings). Make the default Emacs very similary to modern CUA-based applications. Give less reason for the newbies to give up in disgust.
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