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Possibly related: this post about Lotus 1-2-3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47279633

The Emacs interface in general isn't massively like Lotus 1-2-3's, but magit's somewhat is. The above post goes into a bunch of detail, but what I remember most about my time using 1-2-3 (a long time ago now) was that the shortcuts were super easy to get accustomed to, because there was a prompt of some kind every step of the way. magit's rather similar prompts work well in this respect too. (Though you do still have to know how to use git. This is git, after all.)

Where there might be some more general overlap with Emacs: an apparent goal of Lotus 1-2-3 was, like Emacs, that its users would be able to automate it, and without too much bother given their knowledge of how to operate it in general. It's actually better than Emacs in this respect, because the macros seemed to be largely based on the keys you press; Emacs, by contrast, makes you jump through some hoops to figure out what the corresponding elisp for some sequence of keys might be. (The hoops are not hard to jump through! But they are there.)

(Along similar lines: Autodesk's Maya. And, to an extent, 3D Studio Max - though the scriptability there felt merely comprehensive, rather than pervasive. MaxScript was measurably less horrid than MEL though.)



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