> "Perhaps we should implement a mode that puts cosmetics on Emacs so it will appeal to those who judge by the surface of things."
I'm sorry to react to first quote, but as I kept reading I kept coming back to it. My thoughts on that : how you present yourself is how you want (and are going) to be judged.
In general I think Emacs has been user-hostile, as said here, just by its terminology. Nobody outside a minority of devs (a minority even among programmers) refers to Ctrl+c as C-c.
> Yes, make Emacs appealing and user friendly. But don't forget that a masterful tool in the end requires mastery, which can't come for free.
And the old "I have suffered therefore the others have to suffer".
I'm sorry to react to first quote, but as I kept reading I kept coming back to it. My thoughts on that : how you present yourself is how you want (and are going) to be judged.
In general I think Emacs has been user-hostile, as said here, just by its terminology. Nobody outside a minority of devs (a minority even among programmers) refers to Ctrl+c as C-c.
> Yes, make Emacs appealing and user friendly. But don't forget that a masterful tool in the end requires mastery, which can't come for free.
And the old "I have suffered therefore the others have to suffer".