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Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc? |
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Thu, 10 Mar 2016 09:12:23 +0200 |
> From: Tom <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 05:54:23 +0000 (UTC)
>
> Evgeny Panasyuk <evgeny.panasyuk <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
> Indeed. Therefore the tutorial for new users should emphasize features
> which are better in emacs compared to other tools.
>
> C-p and co. are not better, they are just different and not very
> ergonomical either.
Why are we continue to argue? The tutorial clearly states that arrow
keys can be used, and I don't think users of today's computers need to
be taught how to use the arrow keys. So what's exactly the problem?
- 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?, 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