Re: C-h K and C-h F in the Help menu

[David Kastrup]

Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
>> The navigation is in the menus and you page forward with space and
>> backward with backspace.
>>
>> I am afraid that this is much better than the current state of Firefox
>> where keys will do nothing unless you clicked into the page
>> previously, and then will skip by quite unpredictable amounts and
>> might get stuck.
>>   
> The merits of Info that you point to here are true but is quite
> another matter than if it is better for a novice user.

A novice user will be more comfortable at first using firefox rather
than info-mode, more comfortable using nautilus rather than dired, and
more comfortable using nano rather than a major mode from Emacs.

So it would seem that it is better for a novice not to use Emacs at
all, and consequently we need not accommodate novices according to
your logic, since they have no business learning Emacs.

Seriously, it does not make sense for Emacs to promote not using Emacs
when doing so is by far the best solution.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum