Re: Re-installing org-mode packages due to annoying message

[Thomas S. Dye]

Aloha Alan,

Alan E. Davis <lngndvs@gmail.com> writes:


> It is interesting that an old timer like yourself would reach 
> for
> Spacemacs.  I haven't, mostly because I don't think I need the 
> modal model
> of Vi.  The keybindings of Emacs or so convenient and 
> intelligent I find
> them to be enough.  Here's where I might have spent more time in 
> the early
> days learning the basics better.  One of the things I like about 
> Emacs is
> that I can dance around a page of text, in a manner that the 
> commercially
> produced text editors and word processors I know have not dared 
> to
> implement.  We are locked in to a dumbed down interface in all 
> the software
> we encounter.  I cannot think of one example just now, but maybe 
> the way
> one can move back and forth over characters and words.  I never 
> learned Vi,
> except to be able to edit a simple config file if need be.
>
> I know I am over my head, and I have been so for the 30-ish 
> years I have
> been using Emacs and for the time I have used Org-mode.  It is 
> more than I
> can do to keep up with the newer complexities that are cropping 
> up.  Yet,
> just like the plain text files, and the LaTeX source for my one
> publication, a lexicon of animal names, they live on while 
> documents using
> the high priced tools are not longer readable or editable.  And 
> through all
> the changes, my little utilities for editing things that only I 
> could
> probably care about, and I would not expect anyone to care to 
> learn---they
> still work today.  I love it!
FYI, from another old-timer in over his head, Spacemacs has a simple option to 
enable Emacs key bindings.  You don't need to use the modal bindings.

hth,
Tom

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