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Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?
From: |
Filipp Gunbin |
Subject: |
Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc? |
Date: |
Fri, 11 Mar 2016 14:21:11 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (darwin) |
On 10/03/2016 15:07 +0000, Phillip Lord wrote:
> L235: If you are using a graphical display, such as X or MS-Windows,
> there should be a tall rectangular area called a scroll bar on one
> side of the Emacs window.
>
> If you are using a graphical display? I mean, of course, you are using a
> graphical display?
What's wrong with this? A user may be in text console.
> The tutorial is not wrong, nor is it missing anything. It's just
> didactically from a different time, and I am sure it's putting many
> people off.
It's a tutorial for simple editing. Preserving history sometimes can be
valuable. Probably most people wanting to use Emacs already know that
it comes from long ago.
Filipp
- 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?, Richard Stallman, 2016/03/10
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Phillip Lord, 2016/03/10
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/10
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Stefan Monnier, 2016/03/10
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Phillip Lord, 2016/03/10
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/10
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/03/10
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/10
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/03/10
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?,
Filipp Gunbin <=
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Yuri Khan, 2016/03/11
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/11
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Phillip Lord, 2016/03/11
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/03/11
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/11
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Phillip Lord, 2016/03/11
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/12
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/03/12
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Phillip Lord, 2016/03/12
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Phillip Lord, 2016/03/12