Comments on: Enabling Your Users http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/enabling-your-users/ Leveraging Perl and Emacs Tue, 07 May 2013 11:25:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jared http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/enabling-your-users/#comment-7699 Thu, 25 Jun 2009 20:42:38 +0000 http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/?p=686#comment-7699 @Seth – I’m not that keen on customize either.

Thanks for the positive comment on the blog. It really is nice to hear that people find it useful.

@commonman – I put together a distro for my parents to use, mainly so they could appreciate org-mode. Re: the alternative dired I’ve had some other work to do recently but I’m hoping to get back to it shortly. If you’ve any suggestions I’d be interested to hear them.

]]> By: commonman http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/enabling-your-users/#comment-7696 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:47:43 +0000 http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/?p=686#comment-7696 I’ve been thinking lately about putting together an emacs ‘distro’ (actually a lightweight Linux distro with Emacs + packages + usable customizations) for use by writers, and I’d love to see a decent dired-substitute file selector. Even though the combination I’m thinking of is still only suitable for people with some willingness to plow through new interfaces, and learn keymappings, and post cheatsheets near their desks, you do want to cut the complexity where you can, especially if it only comes at the expense of functionality which you don’t need at that location in the interface.

So, no, I don’t think it’s crazy, and I will ‘watch this space’.

]]> By: Seth http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/enabling-your-users/#comment-7692 Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:32:30 +0000 http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/?p=686#comment-7692 Yeah, feel the same.

When I read it, I was really curious about what it did/looked like. That’s probably why it stuck in my noggin and your post jogged it loose. I imagine an interface similar to customize but even that must be off putting (to me at least).

BTW, really like your blog. I’ve been using emacs for about 1.5 years now and have learned quite a bit from your posts. Keep up the great work and thanks for sharing.

]]> By: Jared http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/enabling-your-users/#comment-7691 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:06:56 +0000 http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/?p=686#comment-7691 Hi Seth, thanks for the comment. It would have been nice if Stevey had given more details about Mailman. I can’t imagine an emacs-based app that would be pleasant to use for non-IT people.

]]> By: Seth http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/enabling-your-users/#comment-7688 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 04:20:20 +0000 http://curiousprogrammer.wordpress.com/?p=686#comment-7688 Supposedly, some customer service app that Amazon used was written in emacs. Thus spake Steve Yegge:

http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/tour-de-babel

And people really liked it.

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