Tracy R Reed wrote:
Wade Curry wrote:
How do emacs users prefer deal with the C-h/backspace issues?
I haven't run into the backspace issue in years. It seems to me that
most people have it sorted out. Of course I tend to use only Linux and
haven't used any other Unix since I worked with Solaris at MP3 around 2000.
It's hard to go from one editor to the other just because there is
already a large investment in, and comfort with, the one that is
already known. Obviously. But I think what really keeps me from
getting emacs is the impatience at being reduced to the
functionality of Notepad all over again, The motivation to
continue is already gone because that hurdle has already been
faced.
This is the main obstacle to people picking up Linux also it seems.
I'm not convinced.
We take for granted that people have even *heard* about Linux. That's
not always true.
The things my SDSU students just had no conception of in the computing
world were pretty scary.
Even in the Windows world, using an IDE like Eclipse and some form of
source control was new. ssh? New concept. Bittorrent? New concept.
Linux? Yeah, heard about that but nobody seems to explain why I might
want to learn it.
Everybody forgets that Microsoft marketing is *not* primarily targeted
at why Windows is better than something else. It is targeted at getting
people to ask for Windows *period* as opposed to not knowing that
Windows even exists.
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