GNU Nano 4.0

Post by fulafel » Tue, Mar 26, 2019, 5:35 AM UTC

thom wrote: post #125

theonemind wrote: post #98

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In any large-ish organization, you probably don't do this on a production machine. You absolutely do not do it if you aren't the person (or on the team) who will get called/paged if it breaks, or you're probably risking your job if the package manager goes sideways or you flub it up and let the package manager throw in a couple of extra upgrades or whatever.

So you ask that team to install Emacs (because you're less likely to mess up config with a proper/familiar editor) and they just say no, forever?

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Mar 26, 2019, 9:37 PM UTC

savolai wrote: post #143

harshreality wrote: post #132

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It is not a human cognition problem. It's a motivation problem. Lack of motivation to take a few minutes to learn a keyboard command that will save you orders of magnitude more time in the future than you spend learning it. With the GUI version, what do you have to learn in emacs? In gvim, you have to learn how to switch between normal and insert mode, but I can't think of anything else basic that can't be done in th…

I believe this discussion is a part of a wider cultural gap and differences in understanding. I have been researching these differences for a decade or two now, and would like to understand them better. That's why I would like to understand where you're coming from. First, I'd like to verify: Do you think motivation isn't a human cognition problem? Second, it appears to me you are making a wide array of assumptions a…