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Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?
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Phillip Lord |
Subject: |
Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc? |
Date: |
Fri, 11 Mar 2016 22:00:18 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: address@hidden (Phillip Lord)
>> Cc: Yuri Khan <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
>> address@hidden
>> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 16:57:09 +0000
>>
>> I am working on this. My tutorial is now 480 lines long, so it may need
>> some pruning. I have buffers and files to do. My plan is to finish off
>> with Emacs packages, but getting users to install a new package from
>> ELPA.
>
> Isn't that a chicken-and-egg problem? How can you have a tutorial
> that depends on enough knowledge needed to install ELPA packages?
No, it's fine. The idea is that the basic tutorial (part of Emacs
tarball) runs up to the point of installing an ELPA package. That ELPA
package in the first instance will just be something that says "well
done". In the second instance, the ELPA package can do something
funkier, but one step at a time.
Phil
- 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?, Filipp Gunbin, 2016/03/11
- 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 <=
- 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
- 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?, John Wiegley, 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?, Dani Moncayo, 2016/03/11
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, H. Dieter Wilhelm, 2016/03/13
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Stefan Monnier, 2016/03/13