Re: [linux-audio-user] Usability vs Intuitability in Ardour

must...resist..trying....to...convert... Gah, sod it. Here goes: Emacs might be awkward at first. Just like walking might be awkward when you're used to crawling. That doesn't justify going to work on your hands and knees. People get past the learning curve and use Emacs because once they do, they find that they can do things more quickly and easily than they can in anything else. Some things are just impossible to do in Windows-like editors without a lot of hard work - replace-regexp is my favourite example, and has saved me hours of work. Add to that the syntax highlighting, indentation awareness, cooperation with make, latex, javac, whatever, region comment/uncomment, etc., etc., and you will begin to see why learning Emacs is worth it. Vi people will say the same kind of things about Vi, but of course, they only like Vi because they haven't got used to Emacs yet. And there is one more thing that I love about Emacs that will probably be seen as a problem by others: I don't know all of it. That's right, I enjoy my ignorance. I learn new things all the time, and my "editing experience" is enriched. Please excuse that lapse into marketing speak. Notice I have stayed away from calling Emacs the One True Editor. This isn't because it's not, but because that kind of talk tends to scare people away. Emacs is the only religion I need.