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Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals |
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Wed, 13 May 2015 19:37:21 +0300 |
> Date: Wed, 13 May 2015 09:47:35 +0200
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
>
> > I would start by typing "i directory TAB", then see "directory
> > listing" there, and select it. And there, lo and behold, I'd see
> > this:
>
> Really good example you got there
It's not me, I just worked the example suggested by Rusi.
> 1. I've been using Emacs for quite a while. I'm perhaps atypical
> in that I learn in leaps and bounds and not very systematically.
> It took me several years (three? four?) to learn about "i".
> Before, I used "s". I shouldn't have been allowed to *touch*
> Emacs without knowing about Info's "i" (see below for some
> thoughts on that)
Should probably be added to the end of the tutorial.
> 2. I enter "i folder TAB" and get no entries. Hmmm.
Please make a bug report in any such case.
> Ad 1: I think an intro should blaze a wide track collecting the
> indispensable tools to get up and running (and only hinting at
> alternatives).
I don't think this is practical, for at least 2 reasons:
. the number of indispensable tools is very large
. the set of such tools is highly dependent on what you want to do
in Emacs
> Which are the "indispensable tools" is very much a matter of taste
> and of "current fashion": it will vary over users and time.
Exactly, so it is impractical to have them in an introductory text.
> Heck, I'm an old fart and *even on vi* (which I spell vim) I don't
> "HJKL" but use the cursor keys
And yet the Vim tutorial starts with description of cursor motion.
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