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Re: Elisp addiction not as bad in light of Linux forkoholism
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Loris Bennett |
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Re: Elisp addiction not as bad in light of Linux forkoholism |
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Tue, 02 Dec 2014 17:01:52 +0100 |
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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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Re: Elisp addiction not as bad in light of Linux forkoholism, Raffaele Ricciardi, 2014/12/02
Re: Elisp addiction not as bad in light of Linux forkoholism, Emanuel Berg, 2014/12/11
Re: Elisp addiction not as bad in light of Linux forkoholism, Emanuel Berg, 2014/12/11
Re: Elisp addiction not as bad in light of Linux forkoholism, Emanuel Berg, 2014/12/11