Re: describe-bindings: ^L, bad order, naming

[David Reitter]

On 12 Nov 2005, at 12:28, Robert J. Chassell wrote:
> You are an expert.  Many novices print what they see.  They should not
> -- after all, a computer plus printer is more than an early 20th
> century typesetting machine plus printing machine -- but they do.

Yes they do - you're talking about computer illiterates like my mom,  
right? Or people who use AOL as their ISP... But is my mom every  
going to need a text editor? No.

In our context, novices are people new to the program and its  
concepts. I know plenty of people who are good programmers and  
experts in their (computer science related) fields, but who don't  
know a single Emacs specific shortcut. As you said, they don't want  
to waste their time. So they would like to find out quickly how to do  
things.