The Modernization of Emacs: terminology buffer and keybinding

[Joel J. Adamson]

Twisted <twisted0n3 at gmail.com> writes:


> Yeah, and I abhor the elitist systems that are designed with the
> philosophy that anyone who hasn't mastered years of arcane
> memorization and training in just that one idiosyncratic system is /
> ipso facto/ "stupid and unsophisticated". Most of us 6 and a half
> billion people have better uses for our time, such as buckling in and
> being promptly productive, once we're out of high school or college,
> and fully three and a quarter of us are at least as smart as average,
> and so /ipso facto/ *not* "stupid and unsophisticated".
>

You see, though, the problem is that computers are *not* easy to use.
People only say that they've been made easy to use in order to *sell*
things.  The number one commodity in the technology business (with a
huge profit-margin attached to it) is "user-friendly."  And it's
baloney!  No one in my office that uses one of these supposedly
user-friendly machines thinks that it's actually easy to use.  They
slam their keyboards and throw their hands up *every* day.

The only solution that really works is for people to _learn_ how to
use computers, and to accept that it will be a challenge.

And as for the arcane commands needed to get to the help page, their
on the splash screen.  Have you used Emacs recently?

Joel
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Joel J. Adamson
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A webpage of interest:
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/sylvester-response.html