Re: How users start programming in Emacs Lisp...

[Arthur Miller]

Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org> writes:

> Arthur Miller wrote:
>
>> I think you are probably correct about saving notes.
>> Some vary famious scientists attribute almost everything to
>> their notes.
>
> Yes but what do you mean? :)
>
> Do you mean text files on the computer for example?
>
> Don't we do that already?
>
> Or they (the scientists) have more creative minds/notes
> you mean?
>
> Because me fiddling around with these files, can't say that
> has contributed to any huge success be it personal or
> scientific :)

Computers are just a recent discovery, but anyway, computer or paper, it
is just a media. "Taking note" is a general human activity which can be
done independent of media.

If you are (still) consuming most of your reading material from written
media, then I guess pen and paper are most suitable to you. If you are
like most people today consuming your information from a computer screen
then taking notes with your computer is probably more appropriate since
you will anyway have a keyboard and screen in front of you, ready to
just type.

But anway, it is your choice :-). Einsteing didn't have a mini
calculator and Socrates didn't have neither paper nor computer (and
never took a note), so it's all relative and up to you :).