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From: mark@troma.rv.tis.com (Mark Sienkiewicz)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Betting on Unix
Date: 3 Mar 1997 17:03:23 -0500
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In article <5f6fhq$el0@faculty.ed.umuc.edu>,
Robb Shecter <rshecter@faculty.ed.umuc.edu> wrote:
>
>Emacs, vi & kin are asking us to do the equivalent of memorizing everything
>we've ever learned, word for word.

Just like emacs and vi require you to learn how to use them, so do all
those other "easy" and "intuitive" programs.  

I find that Microsoft Word is very difficult to use.  For example,
notice that the page numbers on the table of contents are frequently
wrong after you edit a document.

Well, the first problem is that it is supposed to be automatic, and 
yet the table of contents is wrong.  

Ok - there must be a command to fix it, so I look in the menu
named "Table", thinking there must be "Table of Contents", right?

Well, it is really under "Insert".  b.t.w. I found that if you use
"Insert, Table of Contents" it will update the TOC, wherever it
is, if it is there already -- it does not insert another one, so
you don't have to move the cursor back to where you want it to be.

So here is a supposedly simple and easy-to-use feature, but I
found *3* non-intuitive aspects to it.  Once I learn how it behaves,
I can memorize that and refer to that knowledge later -- just like
you have to do with emacs! :)

So really, it is all the same -- it's just what you know and what
you are familiar with.

Mark S.

"It took our staff a couple days to get used to the intuitive look and
feel of Microsoft Windows..."