PT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:15:28 +0100, David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> My enthusiasm has vanished, BTW. This all thread was just a >>> sudden, half-baked idea. Reading all the answers I have a more >>> thorough understanding of the situation. The development resources >>> available for Emacs are scarce and the idea has no obvious >>> benefits, >> >> It would be less exasperating conversing with you if you did not >> constantly insinuate stuff and put words into one's mouth. Nobody >> said that improving Emacs' appeal to newbies has no obvious >> benefits. > > It was my own conclusion after reading the answers. I don't see the > benefits anymore.
The benefits to details of your original proposal, maybe. But that does not make the ongoing efforts of contributors go away. That Emacs has a toolbar and a menubar and tooltips and popup messages telling about keybindings for complex commands and draggable mode lines and configurable frame layout and support for mice in a variety of ways and an interactive help system and tutorials in several languages and help sheets and whatever and that menus and keybindings are constantly improved and fought over among the developers (which rarely use the menus at all) all counts for nothing in your eyes. The only thing that would count are your ideas, and you are disappointed because people don't say that just following your lead will cause paradise. Userfriendliness is a hard and long process, and throwing around a few halb-baked buzzphrases is not a major step forward in that regard. That does not mean that the goal in itself is not worthwhile, but it takes more than a quick stroke of presumed genius to put it into motion. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
