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Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?
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Evgeny Panasyuk |
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Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc? |
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Thu, 10 Mar 2016 03:30:44 +0300 |
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10.03.2016 0:32, Tim Cross :
Emacs has an audience/user base, but to believe that equals the set of
all people who use editors is a mistake. Some people just want a very
simple editor which is easy to use and only does basic editing - there
are plenty of these editors.
IMO larger user base, including "casual" users, would not harm Emacs.
These users are unlikely to ever enjoy
emacs. Doing your shopping in a formula 1 car is never going to work.
Your analogy suggests that just text editing with Emacs is intrinsically
hard and we cannot do anything about it - it is F1 after all which is
not designed for shopping (editing).
Those who need/want a more powerful editor are unlikely to be put off by
the tutorial. This doesn't mean we can't improve the tutorial.
I think the problem is not in tutorial itself, but in non-ergonomic
default keybindings.
C-n, C-p, C-f, C-b - are laid out on keyboard without any symmetry. This
is purely historical artifact. There is nothing powerful in these bindings.
Even vi's hjkl are more symmetrical and ergonomic (though also have deep
historical roots).
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Evgeny Panasyuk
- RE: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, (continued)
Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Tom, 2016/03/10
Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, jpff, 2016/03/09
Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/03/09
Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Marcin Borkowski, 2016/03/09
Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Phillip Lord, 2016/03/09
Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, John Wiegley, 2016/03/09
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Tim Cross, 2016/03/09
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Richard Stallman, 2016/03/10
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Clément Pit--Claudel, 2016/03/10
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Evgeny Panasyuk, 2016/03/10
- Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Richard Stallman, 2016/03/11
Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?, Richard Stallman, 2016/03/10