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From: Carson Chittom <carson.chittom@mspb.ms.gov>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: would take more than an org-mode strip-down.
Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 08:28:53 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4pwrck7une.fsf@mspb.ms.gov> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4E8A1EA4.60107@ufl.edu

"Allen S. Rout" <asr@ufl.edu> writes:

> In My Opinion, the current docs in org-mode are targeted at those who
> expect to have their own heads and shoulders inside the 'engine
> compartment' of org and emacs.  This makes them a poor tool to
> communicate with End-Users.  But this might be acceptable, because
> there's no hood on the engine, and the bloody thing is steered with a
> rudder and laterals, instead of the nice sane wheel and pedals
> everyone else uses. :)

I've always thought that Marus Ranum's comment[1] on X applied equally well
to Emacs:  "If the designers of [Emacs] built cars, there would be no
fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which
followed the same principles---but you'd be able to shift gears with
your car stereo.  Useful feature, that."

Of course, he was being snarky, but some people (me!) *want* to be able
to change gears with the stereo.

[1] http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/disaster.html

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-04 13:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-27 17:04 would take more than an org-mode strip-down James Levine
2011-09-28  9:28 ` Jude DaShiell
2011-09-28  9:39 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-09-28 13:27 ` Jambunathan K
2011-09-28 14:18 ` Jambunathan K
2011-09-28 14:47   ` James Levine
2011-09-28 14:58     ` Jude DaShiell
2011-09-28 15:33     ` Russell Adams
2011-09-28 18:34     ` Rasmus
2011-09-28 14:54   ` James Levine
2011-09-30  6:00 ` Carsten Dominik
2011-09-30  9:38   ` Jambunathan K
2011-09-30 16:59   ` Thomas S. Dye
2011-10-04  0:13   ` suvayu ali
2011-10-03 20:44 ` Allen S. Rout
2011-10-04 13:28   ` Carson Chittom [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-09-29  7:46 Rustom Mody
2011-09-29  7:57 ` Rustom Mody
2011-09-29  8:01 ` Rainer M Krug
2011-10-04  6:33   ` Rustom Mody

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