From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Carson Chittom Subject: Re: would take more than an org-mode strip-down. Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2011 08:28:53 -0500 Message-ID: <4pwrck7une.fsf@mspb.ms.gov> References: <92B42F15-B849-473D-9E4C-F513A5DD80E8@me.com> <4E8A1EA4.60107@ufl.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:54643) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RB53u-0001JO-M7 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 09:29:35 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RB53o-0005V1-UO for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 09:29:34 -0400 Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:49348) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RB53o-0005Uv-OQ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 09:29:28 -0400 Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RB53j-0000QX-3U for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:29:23 +0200 Received: from net32h154.itsd.state.ms.us ([69.60.39.154]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:29:23 +0200 Received: from carson.chittom by net32h154.itsd.state.ms.us with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Oct 2011 15:29:23 +0200 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 "Allen S. Rout" 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