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Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals
From: |
Sivaram Neelakantan |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals |
Date: |
Fri, 08 May 2015 22:05:45 +0530 |
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On Fri, May 08 2015,Phillip Lord wrote:
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>> The best way to learn emacs is the tutorial (C-h t).
>
> I wish this were true. Actually, the tutorial is not a good
> introduction to emacs. It's over 200 lines before you get off "how to
> move the cursor around". Most people these days assume that you do this
> with the mouse or a finger and that doesn't take 200 lines to explain.
> Works with Emacs too.
>
> There are other introductions out there, and one of the needs to be
> integrated into Emacs.
>
As a counterexample I did find the tutorial helpful and just about
enough to get started back in the 90s. Then again, I simply accepted
that's how you learn Emacs and went ahead. and it was a good thing
that I did because it simply forced me to abandon vi mode of thinking.
Though I distinctly remember my opinion was initially "dafuq is this
ctrl and meta key mumbo jumbo" and I was off to a grumpy start in
learning it.
sivaram
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