[LAU] light weight, full featured desktop for audio

[david]

On 02/21/2013 03:38 PM, Brett McCoy wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Len Ovens <len at ovenwerks.net> wrote:
>
>>> dwm has both idiosyncrasies and a learning curve, but so too do most
>>> "expert" pieces of software. vim and emacs are the canonical examples,
>>
>> I never did get anywhere with those two. Ed and Vi mostly, though I think
>> I have forgotten most of it. I found joe and used it ever after... it's
>> still my main CLI text ed.
>
> I think I frighten people at work because I *still* use emacs for all
> of my editing tasks...

Both vi and emacs are powerful pieces of software. They are *not* 
designed to be user friendly to anyone else. (Anymore than Wordstar was 
in it's day.)

Being hard to learn doesn't make something an "expert" piece of software 
- unless you're talking about a *field* that requires lots of expertise 
such as rocket science. Text editing isn't rocket science. A text editor 
shouldn't be as hard to learn as rocket science. ;-)

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