Pascal Bourguignon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Falcolas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> Would you mind elaborating on *what* took 3 hours to do, as opposed >> to just throwing around unquantified numbers? Would you also mind >> explaining the user's familiarity with the tools they were using on >> the mac? > > Anything that the user have to do repeatitively with the GUI, like > copy-and-paste, or reformating of a lot of paragraphs or table > entries, and which is done automatically by writting a one-liner > program in emacs or shell.
Actually, in Emacs the task more often than not is solved by using C-h a or M-x apropos and then finding the command that already does the job. >> It's just as easy for me to say that it took me 30 minutes to >> simply exit emacs, and use that to justify that emacs, and by >> extension Linux, is a terrible tool. Somebody who needs 30 minutes to find the File/Exit Emacs menu is not qualified for reporting _any_ computing experience. It is like letting yourself get a report about the points of violin playing from somebody who has just had his first exposure to music, incidentally in the form of a violin lesson. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
