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Editor learning curves

From Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.editors
Subject Editor learning curves
Date 2026-04-04 12:03 +0200
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <10qqnkv$in2o$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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Disclaimer: This is not intended to start an Editor War, just curiosity
about the Google search result statement and interest to understand it,
where it comes from.

About the editor Learning Curves I got this result:
   Notepad++ (Flat) << Vim (Steep) << Emacs (Extremely Steep/Spiral).

Two things I'm curious about that here...
First I'm wondering that Emacs is considered more difficult to get into
than Vim; the story I usually have heard the past decades was that Vi/m
is much more difficult to get into (and Emacs more "simple/intuitive").
Has the valuation of difficulty commonly changed recently?
Then, what has that "spiral" to mean when talking about learning curves?
(I have the graph of functions in mind where you see the proficiency of
learning plotted over time, and I have a problem imagining how a spiral
would look like in a 2D-graph.)

Janis

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Editor learning curves Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-04-04 12:03 +0200
  The Emacs spiral (Was: Editor learning curves) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2026-04-04 21:16 +0000
  Re: Editor learning curves Eric Pozharski <apple.universe@posteo.net> - 2026-04-05 15:39 +0000
    Re: Editor learning curves Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-04-05 21:47 +0000
      neovim (Was: Editor learning curves) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2026-04-05 22:18 +0000
        Re: neovim (Was: Editor learning curves) Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> - 2026-04-06 16:33 +0200
          Re: neovim (Was: Editor learning curves) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2026-04-06 15:15 +0000

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