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RE: Info tutorial is out of date
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: Info tutorial is out of date |
Date: |
Mon, 17 Jul 2006 16:01:16 -0700 |
> To me, structural navigation is not the goal; it is a means
> to achieve the
> goal, which is getting info from a manual (whether quick look-up or
> front-to-back reading).
Reading a manual in order is one paradigm of learning a package. So
we cannot dispose of the structural navigation keys.
No. The proper conclusion is that we cannot dispose of *structural
navigation*. This does not necessarily have anything to do with *keys*.
Anyway, no one proposed to dispose of either structural navigation or
structural-navigation keys. The proposal was to *postpone* (not dispose of)
*teaching* about structural-navigation *keys*. Each of those 3 qualifiers is
important.
And then, only the keys that have obvious, visible alternatives would be
taught later. I specifically argued for teaching SPC and DEL up front. You
can read an entire manual, in order, from front to back, using just SPC.
I didn't paint things in black & white terms, and it's not honest to
characterize my proposal that way.
- "shortcut", (continued)
- "shortcut", Richard Stallman, 2006/07/18
- Re: Info tutorial is out of date, Miles Bader, 2006/07/18
- Re: Info tutorial is out of date, Richard Stallman, 2006/07/16
- Re: Info tutorial is out of date, Jay Belanger, 2006/07/16
- Re: Info tutorial is out of date, Alan Mackenzie, 2006/07/17
- Re: Info tutorial is out of date, Sascha Wilde, 2006/07/17
- Re: Info tutorial is out of date, Mathias Dahl, 2006/07/17
- Re: Info tutorial is out of date, Lennart Borgman, 2006/07/17
- RE: Info tutorial is out of date, Drew Adams, 2006/07/17
- Re: Info tutorial is out of date, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/07/17
- RE: Info tutorial is out of date,
Drew Adams <=
- Re: Info tutorial is out of date, Alan Mackenzie, 2006/07/18
- RE: Info tutorial is out of date, Drew Adams, 2006/07/18
- Re: Info tutorial is out of date, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2006/07/18
- RE: Info tutorial is out of date, Drew Adams, 2006/07/18
- Re: Info tutorial is out of date, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2006/07/18
- Re: Info tutorial is out of date, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2006/07/18
- RE: Info tutorial is out of date, Drew Adams, 2006/07/17
- Re: Info tutorial is out of date, Brad Collins, 2006/07/18
- Re: Info tutorial is out of date, Alan Mackenzie, 2006/07/19
- Re: Info tutorial is out of date, Richard Stallman, 2006/07/19