From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Texas Cyberthal Subject: Re: org-startup-truncated default should be nil [legibility 2/6] Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2020 07:33:04 +0800 Message-ID: References: <87wo905gpe.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <871rr858cs.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <871rr83qxn.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87v9oj3n4p.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87wo8zpf9z.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43856) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1izqeU-0007S7-KE for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Feb 2020 18:33:43 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1izqeT-00053K-Dx for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Feb 2020 18:33:42 -0500 Received: from mail-oi1-x229.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::229]:42878) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1izqeT-0004zk-99 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Feb 2020 18:33:41 -0500 Received: by mail-oi1-x229.google.com with SMTP id j132so201051oih.9 for ; Thu, 06 Feb 2020 15:33:41 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87wo8zpf9z.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> 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-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: "Fraga, Eric" Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" No, that isn't what I'm saying. I'm quite happy with Emacs, especially Spacemacs. However, I had a much harder adoption experience than necessary, and I find that the barriers to entry are preventing normie-noobs from choosing Org as a PIM. So I intend to fix that. On Fri, Feb 7, 2020 at 5:38 AM Fraga, Eric wrote: > > Okay, I get it: Emacs (especially vanilla) just doesn't meet your > requirements. So be it! Horse for courses, as they say here in the > UK. All I can say is that I find most, if not all, other tools so > frustrating. I can never get them to work the way I want. With Emacs, > I can. Yes, this means that I have to work at customizing and this is > not easy for a beginner. But I can. > > One minor point, in case anybody else reading this thread might find > this useful: > > >> What about turning on whitespace-mode? > > > > That makes all the spaces visible, which isn't legible. > > As with all things Emacs, this is completely customizable. You can have > whitespace mode show/highlight the bits you want and not the others. > > -- > : Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50, Org release_9.3.2-233-gc2bc48