On 2007-06-21, Lew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To the claim that "emacs is too hard for the beginner" we have a mounting > pile > of steaming evidence that refutes. It may still be true that it is too hard > for some beginners......
I point them to jed. I, too, was overwhelmed by emacs, initially, but can't stand vi so I had to do something. jed was my savior. It uses many standard keys like backspace and the arrows, so newbs aren't so confused. When I finally became comfortable with the std emacs keystrokes I got O'Reilly's great book and ventured into emacs. Love it. But, still a rank newb and still use jed and slrn a lot till I can learn to configure emacs like I want it. vi, the heart of evil! nb -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
