Re: Omission in tutorial

[Stuart D. Herring]

> I can tell people to read and work through the tutorial for getting
> the hang of Emacs' basic operation.  To ask that for the whole manual
> for something as basic in the "self-documenting" feature set of Emacs
> is not likely to go down well...
>
> The question is whether the functionality is basic and helpful and
> non-obvious enough to warrant putting into the tutorial, not whether
> there is documentation _anywhere_.  I remain of the opinion that it
> would be a good idea, at least after the release, to mention this in
> the tutorial.  Feel free to convince me otherwise.

Upon looking at the tutorial and its references to the manual, it seems to
me that either the C-h "suffix key" or the info node on help should be
mentioned in the tutorial's section on "GETTING MORE HELP" (at some
point).  The benefit of referencing the info node would be that all the
help functions are already described there; perhaps some of the tutorial's
explanations (for, say, C-h c and C-h f) could then be removed to make up
for the addition of the reference.

Davis

PS: David: It occurs to me that my previous message was not only short in
the literal sense but also quite easily taken to be short in the
conversational sense.  Apologies.

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