Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly

[Shawn Betts]

nfreimann <niels_freimann@yahoo.de> writes:

> Giani,
> 
> unfortunately only a small number of users accepting the old fashion
> key bindings, 

I love your wording: old fashion key bindings. As if some superior key
bindings have replaced them. What a joke.

> The number is decreasing.  

Its not because Emacs isn't keeping up. Its because Bad Software is
corrupting ppl from an early age. I don't think lobotomizing emacs to
"keep up" with "modern features" is going to make Emacs a better
editor. If more and more people choose pigeon-editors, Emacs users
die, and development comes to a halt that's a FAR better ending than
selling out to the stooge masses.

> cvs gtk2 emacs takes that into consideration. Again thanks you to
> the cvs gtk2 emacs developers, the nqemacs people, and those
> responsible for the windows version in general.

I fail to see how changing the toolkit is going to magically modernize
Emacs. Is it just the anti-aliased fonts and theme conformance? Is
that *all* it takes to turn a program from crusty and ancient to
modern and up-to-date?

-Shawn