Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.2604.1431095644.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > From: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord)
> > Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 14:39:31 +0100
> > 
> > > The best way to learn emacs is the tutorial (C-h t).
> > 
> > I wish this were true. Actually, the tutorial is not a good
> > introduction to emacs. It's over 200 lines before you get off "how to
> > move the cursor around".
> 
> No, it isn't, not in my Emacs.  It mentions PageUp/PageDown on line 65
> and arrow keys on line 76.  Subtract 15 lines of typographic
> conventions and 13 more lines "left blank for didactic purposes", and
> you get 37 and 48 lines to read until one sees these truisms -- a far
> cry from 200.

Aren't those part of moving the cursor around? Maybe you misunderstood 
him, he said that you have to read more than 200 lines until you learn 
something OTHER THAN how to move the cursor around. Line 263 (on my 
admittedly old version 22.3) is where it finally says "WHEN EMACS IS 
HUNG", the first non-movement section.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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