From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Suvayu Ali Subject: Re: converting people to Emacs and org-mode Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 12:01:25 +0200 Message-ID: <20130410100125.GB31506@kuru.dyndns-at-home.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:48862) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UPrqR-0004yK-Iw for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Apr 2013 06:01:36 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UPrqM-0001Fq-J4 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Apr 2013 06:01:35 -0400 Received: from mail-ea0-x233.google.com ([2a00:1450:4013:c01::233]:38850) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UPrqM-0001Fd-9m for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 10 Apr 2013 06:01:30 -0400 Received: by mail-ea0-f179.google.com with SMTP id f15so130269eak.38 for ; Wed, 10 Apr 2013 03:01:29 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org My comment is off topic here, but couldn't help it ... On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 07:59:08PM -0400, 42 147 wrote: > It was very interesting psychologically to remind oneself of this state of > mind. To most people a program is a shortcut icon on the desktop, not a > bunch of disparate files that coalesce into something like Emacs. There was an ad-hoc survey by some news show, BBC Click I think, which asked people to distinguish what they understand by a web browser and a search engine. About half thought they were one and the same. ;) -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free.