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Re: Debunking Emacs merits over GUI - Re: package for Email
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Bob Newell |
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Re: Debunking Emacs merits over GUI - Re: package for Email |
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Thu, 19 Jan 2023 11:10:51 -1000 |
> >Doug Engelbart invented mouse device for people to speed up with
> >work. Using mouse is just fine.
Certainly it is. But remember it is a matter of choice and user
preference. I find having to reach for the mouse and remove hands
from keyboard very disruptive.
> Yes you are right. I am biased here. Keyboard-centric is not merit, it
> is just a feature.
Again, depending on the point of vue of the user.
> >> - You can manipulate emails buffers just like normal text buffers.
Well, actually you can in GNUS and probably other Emacs clients.
Not to say Thunderbird isn't good. I actually think it's a very good
client. It is just not what I prefer as I like to stay within Emacs.
> >It is way too exaggerated and generalized statement. The "powerful
> >way" in any software comes with experience. To learn what you think is
> >powerful requires maybe decades.
This is something I've stressed before. Serious tools for craftsmen
require serious effort. No one starts out as a master craftsman.
Everyone starts as a novice. Does that mean that the tools of the
master are inferior because the novice is not yet skilled with them?
Hardly.
> But an average user won't use emacs as its text editor. An average user
> writes proses use MS Word.
And that's fine. To each his own.
> >About writing in "Org mode", there is no special advantage for people
> >who use e-mail unless those people are Emacs users. To draw somebody
> >to be Emacs user into Org mode is getting person in trouble.
I will again say something I've said before. Emacs is not for
everyone, and I don't mean that in an elitist sense. For many of us
it is an indispensible tool, which we've spent a long while learning
how to use to best advantage. For others it may just be a big bother
when simpler and easier tools may work just fine for their needs.
I am not out there telling people "learn Emacs" without first knowing
what their interests and inclinations may be. That indeed could be
unproductive. I think people who can make use of Emacs find their way
to it eventually.
--
Bob Newell
Honolulu, Hawai`i
Via Linux/Emacs/Gnus/BBDB.
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