Steven D'Aprano <[email protected]>: > Marko Rauhamaa wrote: >> When you start emacs, it advises you to start the builtin tutorial. > > You need a tutorial for a text editor??? > > If that's supposed to prove how easy Emacs is, you have failed > miserably.
You see, I tend to read even the assembly instructions of Ikea furniture and the user manual of a dryer. More frustrating than having to read a well-thought-out manual is * not being able to accomplish something * not having any manual For example, I never "got" Eclipse despite having to use it for two years. >> That's how I learned it in the 1980's and didn't experience any >> learning curve. > > No learning curve at all? That means one of two things: > > - either you *instantly* intuited every single Emacs feature the > moment you started the application; or No, I just worked through the tutorial. It was fascinating and only took a couple of hours IIRC. That's the way learned almost everything (including Python). > I just started up emacs, [...] > Well, that's just bizarre. I'm not making you use emacs, you know. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
