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Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals |
Date: |
Fri, 08 May 2015 18:01:41 +0300 |
> From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
> Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 10:50:20 -0400
>
> > No, it isn't, not in my Emacs. It mentions PageUp/PageDown on line 65
> > and arrow keys on line 76. Subtract 15 lines of typographic
> > conventions and 13 more lines "left blank for didactic purposes", and
> > you get 37 and 48 lines to read until one sees these truisms -- a far
> > cry from 200.
>
> Aren't those part of moving the cursor around? Maybe you misunderstood
> him, he said that you have to read more than 200 lines until you learn
> something OTHER THAN how to move the cursor around. Line 263 (on my
> admittedly old version 22.3) is where it finally says "WHEN EMACS IS
> HUNG", the first non-movement section.
Yes, I gave him the benefit of the doubt about that. If he really
meant what he said, then I don't understand the whole quip. What's a
tutorial about an editor supposed to start with, if not basic cursor
motion? Which other editor has its tutorial start with something
else?
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