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RE: help-fns.el patch for commands to describe options and commands
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
RE: help-fns.el patch for commands to describe options and commands |
Date: |
Sun, 21 Oct 2007 10:30:38 -0700 |
> > I don't think this is is going to be useful for newbies. They won't
> > learn these commands.
>
> Reason? Why not useful? Why not learnable?
>
> Because there are limits to how much a person can learn. Newbies to
> Emacs are overloaded already. They see lots of commands and learn
> only a few of them. Offering them one more thing to learn won't do
> any good -- they can't learn MORE.
Knowledge is not strictly quantitative: just a bin of beans with a fixed
capacity.
Learning these can mean not needing to learn some other things right away.
Learning `C-h c' for `describe-command' is more useful to a newbie than
learning `C-h c' for `describe-key-briefly'. (And it's a better mnemonic.)
Newbies need `describe-option' more than `describe-variable', so they should
learn it first (as `C-h o'). When they later delve more into Emacs and Lisp,
they can learn `C-h v' (if there is still room in the ol' bin for one more
bean).
- Re: help-fns.el patch for commands to describe options and commands, (continued)
- Re: help-fns.el patch for commands to describe options and commands, Stefan Monnier, 2007/10/20
- RE: help-fns.el patch for commands to describe options and commands, Drew Adams, 2007/10/20
- Re: help-fns.el patch for commands to describe options and commands, Miles Bader, 2007/10/20
- RE: help-fns.el patch for commands to describe options and commands, Drew Adams, 2007/10/20
- Re: help-fns.el patch for commands to describe options and commands, Richard Stallman, 2007/10/21
- Re: help-fns.el patch for commands to describe options and commands, William Xu, 2007/10/21
- RE: help-fns.el patch for commands to describe options and commands, Drew Adams, 2007/10/21
- Re: help-fns.el patch for commands to describe options and commands, Richard Stallman, 2007/10/22
- Re: help-fns.el patch for commands to describe options and commands, William Xu, 2007/10/22
- Re: help-fns.el patch for commands to describe options and commands, Richard Stallman, 2007/10/21
- RE: help-fns.el patch for commands to describe options and commands,
Drew Adams <=
- Re: help-fns.el patch for commands to describe options and commands, Richard Stallman, 2007/10/23