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Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?
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Tom |
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Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc? |
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Thu, 10 Mar 2016 05:54:23 +0000 (UTC) |
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Evgeny Panasyuk <evgeny.panasyuk <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> 10.03.2016 0:32, Tim Cross :
> > Emacs has an audience/user base, but to believe that equals the set of
> > all people who use editors is a mistake. Some people just want a very
> > simple editor which is easy to use and only does basic editing - there
> > are plenty of these editors.
>
> IMO larger user base, including "casual" users, would not harm Emacs.
>
Indeed. Therefore the tutorial for new users should emphasize features
which are better in emacs compared to other tools.
C-p and co. are not better, they are just different and not very
ergonomical either.
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, (continued)
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, jpff, 2016/03/09
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/09
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/03/09
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Phillip Lord, 2016/03/09
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, John Wiegley, 2016/03/09
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Tim Cross, 2016/03/09
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Richard Stallman, 2016/03/10
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2016/03/10
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Evgeny Panasyuk, 2016/03/10
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Richard Stallman, 2016/03/11
Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Richard Stallman, 2016/03/10