Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
> Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 10:50:20 -0400
> 
> > No, it isn't, not in my Emacs.  It mentions PageUp/PageDown on line 65
> > and arrow keys on line 76.  Subtract 15 lines of typographic
> > conventions and 13 more lines "left blank for didactic purposes", and
> > you get 37 and 48 lines to read until one sees these truisms -- a far
> > cry from 200.
> 
> Aren't those part of moving the cursor around? Maybe you misunderstood 
> him, he said that you have to read more than 200 lines until you learn 
> something OTHER THAN how to move the cursor around. Line 263 (on my 
> admittedly old version 22.3) is where it finally says "WHEN EMACS IS 
> HUNG", the first non-movement section.

Yes, I gave him the benefit of the doubt about that.  If he really
meant what he said, then I don't understand the whole quip.  What's a
tutorial about an editor supposed to start with, if not basic cursor
motion?  Which other editor has its tutorial start with something
else?