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In article <9009042157.AA26746@cochlea.bu.edu> slehar@BUCASB.BU.EDU writes:
>
>I don't forget however the difficult learning curve I experienced with
>my first exposure to emacs.  I had experience with several  editors on
>several operating systems at the time, so my  complaints are not those
>of a neophyte.  Summing up over those years, I can now say  that emacs
>is very sophisticated and powerful for  the experienced user.  For the
>beginner however it is so formidable that  many  who try it give up in
>disgust before they have a chance to learn  the better features of it.
>

With all due respect, IMHO this is the onus of using Unix at all. Unix
places on the user the responsabiltiy of becoming proficient.  Unix is
terse, unforgiving, cryptic, and in the hands of a knowledgeable and
dedicated user, stunningly powerful...Emacs follows the tradition.

OSes (sic) like MS-DOS make it the responsabilty of the application to
be easy to use.  Unix is and always has been an OS of the power user.
This, IMHO, is not going to change.  

Is this a virtue or a vice of Unix (Emacs)?  I don't know.  But
after using CP/M, RT-11, VMS, VM/CMS, MacOS, MS-DOS, OS/2 and
Unix, as well as 3-4 editors on each...I'll take almost any
version of Unix (Emacs) any day.

(Purists will argue that GNU-Emacs runs on OSes other than Unix, but
I've never used them there).

I guess what I'm trying to say is that Unix (Emacs) is not an OS
(editor) for the novice, never was, and probably never *really* will
be...

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