Re: Some developement questions

[Phillip Lord]

hw <address@hidden> writes:

>> Are we talking about the same tutorial?  Here's the actual text:
>>
>>   * BASIC CURSOR CONTROL
>>   ----------------------
>>
>>   Moving from screenful to screenful is useful, but how do you
>>   move to a specific place within the text on the screen?
>>
>>   There are several ways you can do this.  You can use the arrow keys,
>>   but it's more efficient to keep your hands in the standard position
>>   and use the commands C-p, C-b, C-f, and C-n. [...]
>
> Yes, we are talking about the same tutorial.
>
> The tutorial uses the first 322 lines (26%) to go on and on about these
> movement keys.  It is supposed to be *the* Emacs tutorial, not a
> keyboard tutorial.
>
> Do you really think that *the* Emacs tutorial should use its first 300+
> lines to cover a non-issue?  Isn't there anything much more interesting
> and far more important to learn about Emacs?

I have watched people new to Emacs reading the tutorial. "Do I really
need to learn all these keypresses to use Emacs" is what they say. The
answer is no, they don't. It has no place in the tutorial, no.

Phil