Eduardo Ochs <[email protected]> writes: > (3) _is_ my experience with the Org mailing list. > > What I meant by "the developers like your questions" was roughly: > "recognizing that that person deserves help, and giving him tools that > would let him solve his problems in hours instead of in months or > years". > > For example, in this thread > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2021-12/msg00674.html
To be fair, your another message copy got some replies: https://list.orgmode.org/cads++6j+opnsa8po7_sbctmhog5v_bezkr6vbb1ecfhbprk...@mail.gmail.com/ > no one considered that if I was asking that then maybe it would be a > good idea to make `org-export-dispatch' more hackeable by beginners... In any case, we are here now, after the discussion resurfaced. > For example, someone could have said "can you try this? Copy that > function to other file, replace its lines foo and bar by the lines > plic and bletch, and use the ideas in these two blog posts to debug > and inspect its data structures"... but no, that didn't happen - I've > asked lots of technical questions here over the years and never got > detailed answers like that, only answers whose technical details _were > kept as short as possible_, and whose explanations were much closer to > "in English" than to "in Lisp". I recommend following up on the replies if you find them incomplete. There are no guarantees that exhaustive detailed replies will be given - they take a lot of time to write and are often not necessary. > A few days ago I added subtitles to my video about "Org for > Non-Users". The links are here, > > http://angg.twu.net/2021-org-for-non-users.html > > and some people will prefer to just read this: > > http://angg.twu.net/eev-videos/2021-org-for-non-users.vtt > http://angg.twu.net/SUBTITLES/2021-org-for-non-users.lua.html > > It explains with examples how a "non-user" thinks, and it shows what I > mean by "explanations in Lisp". I get it, but you cannot force me to reply like this. I simply do not think this way - when I try to reply to questions on ML, I do it the way I can. I cannot adapt the explanation style that is foreign to me. If you find something in mine (or other's) replies not clear, just ask to clarify. -- Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, Org mode contributor, Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>
