Twisted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Emacs is amazingly beginner-friendly for the power and flexibility it >> provides. [snip] > > That's a joke, right? I tried it a time or two. Every time it was > rapidly apparent that doing anything non-trivial would require > consulting a cheat sheet. The printed-out kind, since navigating to > the help and back without already having the help displayed and open > to the command reference was also non-trivial.
C-h i, C-x b RET is non-trivial?!? > Four hours of wasted time later, with zero productivity to show for > it, I deleted it. The same thing happened again, so it wasn't a bad > day or a fluke or a one-off or the particular version, either. If you'd spent half an hour using the tutorial (helpfully displayed right there when you start emacs), you could have saved three and a half hours of wasted time. And you'd now be using an actual text editor, which is often helpful. -- Robert Uhl <http://public.xdi.org/=ruhl> The cover art on the O'Reilly tome isn't meant to anthropomorphize sendmail itself after all; it's actually a subliminal warning that one'd need to be bats to want to use sendmail. --Anthony de Boer -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
