Re: GNU Emacs raison d'etre

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Another area is the keybinding space and the minibuffer.  Just about every 
time I have watched a new user use Emacs, I have noticed how frequently they 
accidentally hit some key combination or sequence and wind up in some weird 
state that they never meant to be in -- and don't know how to get out of.

We made this very simple a few years ago: Just keep typing C-g.
I guess these users don't know that.

Can anyone thing of a better way to teach them about this?
It could teach them first about the minibuffer, then about C-g
to get out.  It could copy the current minibuffer prompt
into the help screen to make the explanation clearer.

The tricky part is how to detect when a user could use this help.

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Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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