On 09/27/2011 01:04 PM, James Levine wrote:
I thought I’d zoom out and tell you what a consumer experience is like:
I'm replying off the list. BTW, are you either The Conductor, or The Author? ;) Your experience seems to be informed by a sense that 'org-mode' is eager for market share or some such. I think you'll find that's not a common case. Certainly, org-mode afficionados are eager to expound on their preferred tools; but that doesn't mean they're after mass-market appeal. For example:
2) Some things are just better with a gui.
to a project subtitled "Your life in plain text" suggests your perspective is not aligned with that of many of the project participants. I do not mean by this a disparagement of your perspective, merely discriminating it from that of the average nerd. Your composition style is literate and prolific; you might enjoy this series of essays by Neal Stephenson, entitled "In the beginning was the Command Line". http://steve-parker.org/articles/others/stephenson/ (also available from the author's website in other formats) http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html but the discussion of 'fallibility...' includes several paragraphs which I feel might be illuminating, especially on the topic of documentation. http://steve-parker.org/articles/others/stephenson/fallibility.shtml In My Opinion, the current docs in org-mode are targeted at those who expect to have their own heads and shoulders inside the 'engine compartment' of org and emacs. This makes them a poor tool to communicate with End-Users. But this might be acceptable, because there's no hood on the engine, and the bloody thing is steered with a rudder and laterals, instead of the nice sane wheel and pedals everyone else uses. :) - Allen S. Rout
