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Re: evangelizing Emacs with a graphical tutorial
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Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
Re: evangelizing Emacs with a graphical tutorial |
Date: |
Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:29:34 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
> I am not sure about that: the most unfriendly thing an editor can do to
> a beginner is not allowing him to quit. Now that's probably not an
> issue for the GUI startup screen since we have File/Exit Emacs on the
> menu.
>
> Actually, the next unfriendly thing is not allowing a user _not_ to
> quit. I just tried
>
> C-h k M-F4
>
> and got the following result:
>
> Conspicuously absent in this plethora of answers is an option _not_ to
> quit (presumably "Cancel"). Closing the dialog window happens to
> achieve that, apparently, but it is not really obvious.
It seems C-g is supposed to be used to close the dialog window,
but this is not obvious either.
And the "Yes/No" answer is not a friendly thing too. I once lost
changes in an unsaved file a long ago (not in Emacs) because after
closing the program to the question "Save file?" in a hurry I answered
"No" intending the meaning "No, I will save it later" :-) I guess this
is the reason why instead of "Yes" and "No" many contemporary programs
display explicit unambiguous answers like "Save" and "Don't save".
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/