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"enhanced from GNU Emacs"... Implying that you could easily enhance Emacs is a certain way for pushing passionate users away from this. You don't "enhance" Ema

• chc 15y ago
  Eh, a beginner needs Emacs to be more extended like I need twelve more legs. Emacs is harder to learn than most of the programming languages you'll be using in it. The first thing I tried to do beyond basic open-edit-save when I started learning Emacs was change the colors to something that hurt my eyes less. After extensive Googling and playing around with the things I found, I failed. That's simple in every other text editing program I'd used up to that point, but when given the choice to improve the program's usability or "extend it" and "write cool modes," you're right, Emacs users seem to invariably prefer the latter. I can't blame people for scratching their own itch, but I don't think we should hate on people for trying to help new users either.