Re: Interactive guide for new users (was: Re: Gather a list of confusions beginner tend to have)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 15:46:14 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <ghe@sdf.org>
> cc: casouri@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> > I wouldn't call these basics "subtleties".  They are the most 
> > fundamental terminology in Emacs.
> 
> They are indeed, I'm not denying this.  My point of view here is: what are 
> the most essential things that a user needs to know to use Emacs if we 
> have no more than three minutes?  Clearly (at least to me) it is possible 
> to use Emacs without knowing what a "buffer" or a "window" is.

How would they even understand the doc strings without knowing what's
a buffer and what's a window?  We have the Glossary section in the
manual, for that very reason.