From pycyn@aol.com Tue Aug 22 07:12:34 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19234 invoked from network); 22 Aug 2000 14:12:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 22 Aug 2000 14:12:34 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-d05.mx.aol.com) (205.188.157.37) by mta1 with SMTP; 22 Aug 2000 14:12:33 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-d05.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v27.12.) id a.f6.2154c44 (4505) for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 10:12:31 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 10:12:31 EDT Subject: Re: [lojban] emacs etc. To: lojban@egroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 16-bit for Windows sub 41 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 3987 In a message dated 00-08-22 02:11:59 EDT, lex writes: << Emacs is extremely fast once you learn it. Whenever I have to write a huge volume of text, I try to do it in Emacs. >> Jet planes are extremely fast, once you learn to fly them. Whenever I have a long distance to travel, I would like to do it flying a jet plane. The point being that you have to learn quite a lot before you can get emacs to do anything (admittedly, I haven't messed with it in years, so it has almost certainly gotten better -- "almost' because of its cultic status which somewhat delays user friendliness), unlike, say, Word, which will do most of the things an ordinary person needs done with little or no special knowledge. Word won't do as much, perhaps, in the long run and needs some training to get to more remote tricks, but most people don't need even those training tricks. The point here, again, is that, when designing hotshot devices for Lojban, consider designing them for normal users, not for the tails, even though you are a tail and surrounded by them.