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Re: Menu suggestion
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Kim F. Storm |
Subject: |
Re: Menu suggestion |
Date: |
26 Apr 2004 11:56:24 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> I know the keyboard purist elite is very fond of emacs' traditional
> bindings, but they do make emacs more difficult to learn than
> emacs+CUA.
>
> Why do you think the traditional Emacs bindings are harder to learn
> than these bindings?
It is not a question of which bindings are harder to learn -- it's a
question of whether it is necessary to learn any bindings at all.
When a new user is trying emacs for the first time, I bet that he
already knows about scrolling using arrow keys, home/end, pgup/pgdn,
and if he is just a little experienced in other applications, there is
also a good chance that he already knows about C-c to copy, C-x to
cut, C-z to undo and C-v to paste.
Since emacs already has the capability to support the bindings that
the user already knows, there is really no need to teach (and confuse)
a new user an alternative way to move the cursor (which is a fairly
large part of the tutorial).
So while your point is that to use emacs, the user must be taught a
non-standard set of cursor movement bindings, my point is that if we
allow a user to build on his current experience gained from other
applications, he can more quickly learn to use emacs as a whole.
Of course, if he later want to learn how to use emacs more efficiently
(and he is a good typist), he can start learning about C-f, C-b, for
cursor motion.
It is true that changing the translations of the tutorials is a big
task, but maybe it would pay off in the end.
--
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
- Menu suggestion, David Kastrup, 2004/04/23
- Re: Menu suggestion, Robert J. Chassell, 2004/04/24
- Re: Menu suggestion, Kim F. Storm, 2004/04/24
- Re: Menu suggestion, Richard Stallman, 2004/04/25
- Re: Menu suggestion,
Kim F. Storm <=
- Re: Menu suggestion, Miles Bader, 2004/04/26
- Re: Menu suggestion, Kim F. Storm, 2004/04/26
- Re: Menu suggestion, Richard Stallman, 2004/04/27
- Re: Menu suggestion, Kim F. Storm, 2004/04/27
- Re: Menu suggestion, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2004/04/27
- Re: Menu suggestion, Kim F. Storm, 2004/04/27
- Re: Menu suggestion, Per Abrahamsen, 2004/04/30
- Re: Menu suggestion, Stefan Monnier, 2004/04/30
- Re: Menu suggestion, Kim F. Storm, 2004/04/30
- Re: Menu suggestion, Stefan Monnier, 2004/04/30