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The Emacs spiral (Was: Editor learning curves)

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In article <10qqnkv$in2o$1@dont-email.me>,
Janis Papanagnou  <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com> wrote:
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>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.)

I put "emacs learning curve spiral" into DuckDuckGo, and got a few results.
Here is some text from one of the Stacks thingies:

URL: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10942008/what-does-emacs-learning-curve-actually-look-like

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It's a good joke, with some definite truth to it.

I always assumed the author meant it as an indication that the more you
learn about Emacs, the more possibilities for further learning open up to
you. Hence the infinite spiral.

Or to put it another way, the more you know, the more you realise what you
don't know :)

--phils
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I don't know any more than that, probably because I've never had an
interest at all in learning emacs.

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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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