From: Alexander Poslavsky <alexander.poslavsky@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Re: org-mode tutorial questionaire
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:00:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <D8108F02-11CC-4221-9236-AC9B7FC0B4A6@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vdcmbto5.wl%dmaus@ictsoc.de>
On Mar 23, 2010, at 10:43 PM, David Maus wrote:
> Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs wrote:
>> Hi
>
>> Alexander Poslavsky schrieb:
>>>> I was wondering if you could elaborate on the following. Are you
>>>> suggesting that new users should never use M-x customize?
>>> Well, I don't know about anybody else, but I *never* use it. I think it is awful. But then, what do I know….
>> ---Zitatende---
>
>> Maybe that's a bit opinionated for a tutorial then. I do use M-x
>> customize and I believe it has its merits.
>
> I only use M-x customize to look what lever I can pull but pointing at
> customize for a user who is new to Emacs, Org and, in turn, elisp
> seems to me a really good sugestion. Not just for the user, but maybe
> for the authors of the tutorial: You don't have to explain elisp when
> talking about customization options.
ok, it looks that the general opinion is a lot more positive then I thought. I'll change it in the tutorial, and see if other things can be done using M-x customize.
thanks for the remarks, keep them coming,
alex
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-23 22:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-23 18:02 org-mode tutorial questionaire Alexander Poslavsky
2010-03-23 19:42 ` Matt Lundin
2010-03-23 20:04 ` Alexander Poslavsky
2010-03-23 20:50 ` Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs
2010-03-23 21:43 ` David Maus
2010-03-23 22:00 ` Alexander Poslavsky [this message]
2010-03-23 22:04 ` Thomas S. Dye
2010-03-23 23:46 ` Matt Lundin
2010-03-24 2:30 ` Alexander Poslavsky
2010-03-23 20:47 ` Richard Riley
2010-03-24 2:31 ` Bernt Hansen
2010-03-24 6:32 ` Richard Riley
2010-03-24 11:53 ` Bernt Hansen
2010-03-24 12:36 ` Ian Barton
2010-03-25 17:57 ` Austin Frank
2010-03-27 11:32 ` Ian Barton
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