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Re: Visitor here is a gedit user; how to interest him in Emacs?


From: despen
Subject: Re: Visitor here is a gedit user; how to interest him in Emacs?
Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:23:10 -0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux)

dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) writes:

> Recently, I've been trying to interest someone in
> this most wonderful program, (gnu) Emacs.
>
> Trouble is, he's already using Gedit (google's editor);

Gnome Edit.  It's only hosted at google code.

> every time I try to show him some Emacs concep, he says
> that he can do that in gedit also.

Leave him alone.  You'll only annoy him.

Gedit focuses on simplicity.  Some users like that over
being able to do almost anything.


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