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From: | Andreas Röhler |
Subject: | Re: Yet another discussion on improving the first time user experience |
Date: | Mon, 23 Sep 2013 09:30:25 +0200 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 |
Am 23.09.2013 09:07, schrieb Eli Zaretskii:
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 08:03:30 +0200 From: Andreas Röhler <address@hidden> Am 23.09.2013 02:18, schrieb Lennart Borgman:The tutorial kind of throws other keybindings than the arrow keys on the new user. Kind of patronizing if someone asks me. ;-)Putting users first attention at that kind of matter, it also spreads a quit unjust and wrong impression WRT Emacs and it's people. That tutorial probably was okay twenty years ago. No it reads as vim's ":q" is envied, proving emacs can make it difficult too.When did you read it last time? also 20 years ago?
At the very first screen C-v is presented. Nowadays keyboards commonly have an own key for it, no need to bother beginners with this. While later, certainly, it's preferable. Next screen tells about C-p, C-n That must have been changed very recently ;)
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