Re: basic question: going back to dired

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Bastien Guerry wrote:
> "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Bastien wrote:
> > > If Emacs implements a feature that no other editor implements
> > > then the user is usually not fussy about the learning curve.
> > Are you sure about that? What about if the learning time is so long that
> > it outweight the benefits of the feature the user want?
>
> Then the user can just accuse himself of being lazy.

;-)

> I don't say I'm sure about anything here, because we are talking about
> very empirical matters.  But I'm under this impression.

Why not then consider the learning process? Why not try to be think 
creatively about all types of constraints the user may meet (and that 
matters here of course)?

A note: For some people there is possibly a benefit with that Emacs is 
hard to learn. They may perhaps feel that they can master something. 
There is both good and bad things in that.

> And it's not as if you could consider the Emacs-learning-curve
> independantly of this-feature-learning-curve.  For example, if someone
> gets impressed by what Gnus can achieve, then learning Gnus and learning
> Emacs overlap to a great extent.  
>
> So if someone wants a feature and is ready to learn about it, I guess it
> also mean he's ready to learn about Emacs in general.