Re: Adding a "quick-help" menu

[wilnerthomas]

Sep 18, 2022, 17:53 by philipk@posteo.net:

> Bob Rogers <rogers@rgrjr.com> writes:
>
>> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
>>  Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2022 10:53:58 +0000
>>
>>  Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>>
>>  > Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:
>>  >
>>  >> There is a fork of mg (MicroEmacs)[0] that binds C-h q to a command that
>>  >> pops up a buffer with these contents:
>>  >
>>  > I think having a "cheat sheet" like this would be useful.
>>
>>  Calling it a "cheat sheet" sounds like a good idea.  I've added
>>  `cheat-sheet' as an alias:
>>
>> A quick Web search for "emacs cheat sheet" turns up the "GNU Emacs
>> Reference Card" as the first hit -- followed by a bunch of others.  And
>> it occurs to me that, for a real newbie, a cheat sheet in a browser
>> window might be easier to work with than one within emacs itself.
>>

A reference card is there to guide you, but most schools have banged in people's
minds that things that help you constitute cheating.  Total nonsense.


> I might just be too young and lack the concentration that pre-gen-z
> people had that reference card always appeared too overwhelming for me.
>

You rather read the whole Emacs Manual instead?


> I guess my suggestion isn't much better, it is the same thing just less
> of it...
>
>> -- Bob Rogers
>>  http://www.rgrjr.com/
>>
>> [1]  https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/refcards/pdf/refcard.pdf
>>
Having categorisations does help you focus on the parts you need at a 
particular moment.