Re: Emacs learning curve

[Sean Sieger]

"Drew Adams" <address@hidden> writes:

    > > We've seen no _evidence_ about a supposed dearth of newbies
    > > coming to Emacs, in spite of repeated _claims_.  No
    > > Emacs-is-dying problem has been shown, so far.
    >
    > Of course it is very hard to show statistics for newbies.
    > OTOH, absence of proof does not indicate that the fact does
    > not exists.

    Can you say "Tooth Fairy"? "Santa Claus"?

    I won't mention other religious figures.

How about this.

First, remove cua-mode from the development trunk.

Second, make a new branch, say notepademacs-24 and include cua-mode in
it.

Third, watch that new branch, new developers and new users and
new productivity flourish.