Re: Menu suggestion

[Kim F. Storm]

Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden> writes:

> On 30 Apr 2004 19:30:46 +0200
> address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) wrote:
> 
> > It seems that a good part of the emacs developers don't actually use
> > the emacs bindings --
> 
> I've been using Emacs daily for the past seven years, and I hardly use
> C-f, C-b, etc.
> 
> Yeah, they're faster than arrow keys if you're used to them, but perhaps
> I don't usually need the raw typing speed, and I find them extremely
> non-intuitive... (now, if we were talking of vi/nethack cursor motion
> commands... :)

So the tutorial could start by asking the user a number of quiestions:

1) Do you have a Happy Hacker keyboard ?
2) Do you use C-z, C-x, C-c, C-v for undo, cut, copy, and paste ?

..

and then omit/include the relevant parts in the tutorial...

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Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk