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Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?
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Clément Pit--Claudel |
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Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc? |
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Mon, 14 Mar 2016 10:14:50 -0400 |
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On 03/14/2016 08:16 AM, Richard Stallman wrote:
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> The idea of the tutorial is to get people started. Then they should
> go to the Emacs manual to learn more. We describe a lot of
> possibly-cool features in the Emacs manual, but there's no need
> to teach them in the tutorial.
Hi Richard,
The manual is indeed great. The question is, what drives people to read it?
Maybe the tutorial is a good occasion to teach people about the manual: we show
people a cool feature, and we point them to the relevant section in the manual.
The issue that I'm pointing out is that migrating to Emacs has a small cost, at
least at the beginning. It would be wonderful if we could tell people "do you
think Emacs is too (bloated|complicated|hard-to-learn|...) for you? Just check
the 5-minutes tutorial and see for yourself".
But again, maybe there should be two documents: the Emacs elevator pitch, and
the Emacs tutorial.
Clément.
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- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/12
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- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/13
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Stefan Monnier, 2016/03/13
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/13
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2016/03/13
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/13
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2016/03/13
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/03/13
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Richard Stallman, 2016/03/14
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?,
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- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Richard Stallman, 2016/03/15
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Phillip Lord, 2016/03/13
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2016/03/13
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Richard Stallman, 2016/03/14
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Richard Stallman, 2016/03/14
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/14
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