From: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.online>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Cc: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Re-installing org-mode packages due to annoying message
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 05:36:57 -1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871r2z3rdy.fsf@tsdye.online> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAF-1L2TepdJn_f1PdHEwNh_aGCrGVkU6s=j1wVj1sPb=m043cA@mail.gmail.com>
Aloha Alan,
Alan E. Davis <lngndvs@gmail.com> writes:
> It is interesting that an old timer like yourself would reach
> for
> Spacemacs. I haven't, mostly because I don't think I need the
> modal model
> of Vi. The keybindings of Emacs or so convenient and
> intelligent I find
> them to be enough. Here's where I might have spent more time in
> the early
> days learning the basics better. One of the things I like about
> Emacs is
> that I can dance around a page of text, in a manner that the
> commercially
> produced text editors and word processors I know have not dared
> to
> implement. We are locked in to a dumbed down interface in all
> the software
> we encounter. I cannot think of one example just now, but maybe
> the way
> one can move back and forth over characters and words. I never
> learned Vi,
> except to be able to edit a simple config file if need be.
>
> I know I am over my head, and I have been so for the 30-ish
> years I have
> been using Emacs and for the time I have used Org-mode. It is
> more than I
> can do to keep up with the newer complexities that are cropping
> up. Yet,
> just like the plain text files, and the LaTeX source for my one
> publication, a lexicon of animal names, they live on while
> documents using
> the high priced tools are not longer readable or editable. And
> through all
> the changes, my little utilities for editing things that only I
> could
> probably care about, and I would not expect anyone to care to
> learn---they
> still work today. I love it!
>
FYI, from another old-timer in over his head, Spacemacs has a simple option to enable Emacs key bindings. You don't need to use the modal bindings.
hth,
Tom
--
Thomas S. Dye
https://tsdye.online/tsdye
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-29 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-28 20:19 Re-installing org-mode packages due to annoying message Alan E. Davis
2021-11-28 21:18 ` Tim Cross
2021-11-29 10:28 ` Alan E. Davis
2021-11-29 15:36 ` Thomas S. Dye [this message]
2021-12-01 8:15 ` Alan E. Davis
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