[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: [O] would take more than an org-mode strip-down.
From: |
Carson Chittom |
Subject: |
Re: [O] would take more than an org-mode strip-down. |
Date: |
Tue, 04 Oct 2011 08:28:53 -0500 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110017 (No Gnus v0.17) Emacs/23.3 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) |
"Allen S. Rout" <address@hidden> writes:
> In My Opinion, the current docs in org-mode are targeted at those who
> expect to have their own heads and shoulders inside the 'engine
> compartment' of org and emacs. This makes them a poor tool to
> communicate with End-Users. But this might be acceptable, because
> there's no hood on the engine, and the bloody thing is steered with a
> rudder and laterals, instead of the nice sane wheel and pedals
> everyone else uses. :)
I've always thought that Marus Ranum's comment[1] on X applied equally well
to Emacs: "If the designers of [Emacs] built cars, there would be no
fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which
followed the same principles---but you'd be able to shift gears with
your car stereo. Useful feature, that."
Of course, he was being snarky, but some people (me!) *want* to be able
to change gears with the stereo.
[1] http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/disaster.html