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Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals
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Phillip Lord |
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Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals |
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Fri, 15 May 2015 14:44:41 +0100 |
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> Its 2015.
>> You dont need to explain things like cursor-movement [do people read/need
>> notepad or gedit tutorials?] unless its rather non-standard.
>
> Emacs is neither notepad nor gedit, and we describe cursor motion
> because the ergonomic commands for that are "rather non-standard", or
> at least could be for people whose only experience is gedit or
> notepad.
>
>> Of course in 1975 it was different...
>
> It's different today as it was different in 1985. And we do mention
> the arrow keys and PageUp/PageDown before we describe the
> Emacs-specific bindings. So I really see no reason to complain,
> except if you have an agenda.
I suspect that Rusi's agenda is to make the Emacs tutorial as easy to
understand as possible.
I've rarely managed to get one of my students to read the tutorial. I
would like to be able to change that situation. It's good to think of
how.
Phil
- Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals, (continued)
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