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Re: Some developement questions


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Some developement questions
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2018 02:26:03 -0400

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  > Yeah. Most of that stuff is "move cursor back and forward". It's too
  > slow for most new users and freaks them out. While it was well intended
  > at the time, I think, it is now a negative feature of the tutorial.

Users need to learn these commands in order to edit _efficiently_ with
Emacs.  But maybe most beginners will not aim to edit _efficiently_
and it is ok not to teach them this.

  > I would like to add automation which would work better. So where it says
  > "create a new frame", it would be nice to have a click button which
  > actually does this for you.

I don't follow.  Concretely, what do you propose, and what is good about it?

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Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
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