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The investment in learning any powerful editor would probably follow a power law, since you'd be continually learning new things. You could keep it to O(1) by c
by mtdewcmu 13y ago
The investment in learning any powerful editor would probably follow a power law, since you'd be continually learning new things. You could keep it to O(1) by choosing some subset and refusing to learn anything more. But the expectation is that time spent learning more than pays off over time.
- mheathr 13y agoThe analogy of Emacs learning curve being a fractal is quite appropriate I think if we take each fractal to represent an amount of time required to gain proficiency in modes that introduce significant amounts of features, with the smaller fractals representing modes that require less time to learn. That sounds like chaos, but it captures Emacs platform nature and diversity of functionality well and seems true thus far as Emacs replaces more and more tools.