Re:Emacs-ng: Emacs with Deno runtime and TypeScript
by skissane on Monday March 15, 2021 @11:59PM
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> Meet. Your. Users. Where. They. Are.
But who are your users?
I started using emacs back in the 1990s, when I was in high school; I actually started using it under OS/2 (as part of EMX), later switched to running it under Linux. I never had trouble with the concept or name "buffers". I just read the manual and the manual explains everything very clearly. (I really loved the GNU Emacs manual, it was a pleasure to read.) In more recent years, I've abandoned emacs completely for vim, but vim calls them buffers too. I am totally at home with a text editor with "buffers", and changing the name isn't going to make anything less confusing for me – if anything, the change is going to confuse me.
Tools like emacs and vim are not targeted at "ordinary" users. If a tool isn't aimed at "ordinary" users, it shouldn't be judged for not meeting their needs, since it was never trying to.
I even wrote a text editor myself (half-finished personal project, I've never released it publicly, don't know if I ever will, it was really just to prove to myself I could do it). And it has "buffers" too, because that is the concept and terminology I am comfortable with.
But who are your users?
I started using emacs back in the 1990s, when I was in high school; I actually started using it under OS/2 (as part of EMX), later switched to running it under Linux. I never had trouble with the concept or name "buffers". I just read the manual and the manual explains everything very clearly. (I really loved the GNU Emacs manual, it was a pleasure to read.) In more recent years, I've abandoned emacs completely for vim, but vim calls them buffers too. I am totally at home with a text editor with "buffers", and changing the name isn't going to make anything less confusing for me – if anything, the change is going to confuse me.
Tools like emacs and vim are not targeted at "ordinary" users. If a tool isn't aimed at "ordinary" users, it shouldn't be judged for not meeting their needs, since it was never trying to.
I even wrote a text editor myself (half-finished personal project, I've never released it publicly, don't know if I ever will, it was really just to prove to myself I could do it). And it has "buffers" too, because that is the concept and terminology I am comfortable with.