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Sure, but if it was just about "any command that a beginner might sensibly want his text editor to perform", they could stick with textmate (or whatever). Using
by silentbicycle 16y ago
Sure, but if it was just about "any command that a beginner might sensibly want his text editor to perform", they could stick with textmate (or whatever). Using menus inherently sucks, because it doesn't scale to hundreds of operations. Emacs transcends both, but I don't begrudge the people who prefer vim either - each cuts the bullshit and focuses on actual editing.
Also, a lot of people who build Emacs extensions (self included) consider the menus as an afterthought, best dealt with after cancer (or C++) is cured, i.e., never.
- hugh3 16y agoSure, but using the menus is just the starting point on the learning curve. After staring at 'em for a while you figure out what "C-x C-f" means and pretty soon you're playing pinkie twister with the best of 'em. That's the way I learned emacs, anyway. Of course there's many, many hidden depths I've never learned after nine years.
- 1amzave 16y agoHell, I just turn off the menu bar entirely -- and the scroll bar and the toolbar with all the goofy buttons on it...waste of valuable screen real estate that could have text in it, if you ask me. One of these days I'll get around to re-binding M-` to something useful, too...