Re: Elisp addiction not as bad in light of Linux forkoholism

[Raffaele Ricciardi]

On 30/11/14 01:06, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> The old Emacs pros sometimes like to say you shouldn't
> spend too much time configuring Emacs, you shouldn't
> get stuck in that, it is ultimately impractical, etc.

The problem is that old Emacs pros don't explain the Emacs work-flow to 
novices and therefore novices are left to "connect the dots" on their 
own.  When novices fail to connect some dots, they resort to configure 
Emacs to achieve some goals in a way that they know.  Moreover, in my 
experience, vanilla Emacs lacks many convenient commands (or at least 
some efficient key bindings for available convenient commands) and some 
standard commands feel counterintuitive.  I understand that this is for 
historical reasons, and I am not complaining about it, but nonetheless 
this is the way it is.  Hence the need to spend much time configuring Emacs.