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What does Emacs' learning curve (actually) look like?
Some time ago, someone gave a graph showing how learning curves look different for different editors:
Source: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/steverowe/archive/2004/11/17/code-editor-learning-curves.aspx
Assuming the horizontal axes is the experience with the tool, and vertical axes the retained information, what I can't understand about the above graph is how can the curve for Emacs curve backward as your experience should always increase?!
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'emacs' is great but if you are comfortable with 'vi' and wont be heavily using it then you are better off not putting serious time into learning emacs. emacs is fun and gets quite intuitive over time. So, I would say spend 10 to 15 mins everyday and see how it works for you.
Learning curves are plots used to show a model's performance as the training set size increases. Another way it can be used is to show the model's performance over a defined period of time. We typically used them to diagnose algorithms that learn incrementally from data.
It's a good joke, with some definite truth to it.
I always assumed the author meant it as an indication that the more you learn about Emacs, the more possibilities for further learning open up to you. Hence the infinite spiral.
Or to put it another way, the more you know, the more you realise what you don't know :)
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In my case it looks like:
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I fired up emacs by mistake and could not figure out how to exit, I ended up logging in from another terminal and killing the process.
This was enough to convince me that vi was not so bad after all.
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