[Twisted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] | | > I have observed similar opinions in other non-computer-freaks. people | > who see the computer only as a tool and are only interested in getting | > the job done. they have a surprising preference for Linux. | | But not emacs, I'll bet. I think emacs appeals to people who like | dealing with the mechanics of emacs or fiddling with and extending the | darn thing. But most people just want to get the job done, and the | editor or other tools they use have to get out of the way and simply | let them work.
no, Emacs is not among the applications they use. nor are any IDEs or compilers. I don't think Emacs is that relevant to these users since what they do is mostly word-processing, spreadsheets, mail and web browsing. Emacs is not really targeted at Word processing as such. (although that doesn't stop some people from thinking that it would be a good idea to turn Emacs into a wordprocessing application with support for graphics, mixed fonts etc.) I use Emacs for creating documents, but this is very different since I use LaTeX and I'm a programmer, so it is very conventient for me to use a system that allows me to treat documents like code (with respect to revision control systems etc). outside academia or the technical community, not that many use LaTeX, but I have seen it in the past. -Bjørn -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
