.--- | Chris Devers wrote: | | The trick is to be complex, yet accessible. | `---
To enjoy emacs without investing any time, talk to some emacs users you know. Ask them about their text editing habits. When you find one that closely resembles yours, ask to borrow their .emacs. It makes emacs a lot simpler. I have much the same .emacs I had when I first started using it and I just swiped it from a friend.
When I write with pen and paper, I use a Pilot P-700 pen and any old paper will do. I adore the P-700. I buy them in bulk. I don't call them "pens". I carry one everywhere I go. I give them to people who say they like them. People look at me funny when I talk about them.
Yet no one has ever told me that my pen is too feature rich or to complex to use. The pen, it turns out, has little to do with the value of what it produces when I am jotting notes in a meeting or writing pseudo code or signing my name. I simply just enjoy the P-700.
On another note, I personally don't care what editor I use, but my muscle memory insists on emacs. I can't tell you how many times I have hit ctrl-x ctrl-s to save... in Outlook... and accidentally sent an employer or a mailing list an unedited or worse, unfinished letter.
-- Daniel M. Lipton
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