Re: Emacs for new users

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Per Starbäck <address@hidden> writes:

> I wrote:
>> But I prefer if they don't have to, since they have lots of other stuff to 
>> learn as
>> well. Every good step is a good step, even the small ones.
>
> I should add that I love all the care that has been taken in making
> Emacs 23 even more accessible for new users
> than Emacs 22 was. I'm teaching an intro course where we use Emacs
> among other things, and I think if was a big
> change to do this with Emacs 23 this year. Kudos to all involved!
>
> Maybe I should ask my students about what they have found particularly
> confusing. Some things I've noticed
> off the top of my head:
>
> * beeping is often disturbing and unexpected, in particular for
> scrolling past the beginning or end of the
>   buffer with the scroll wheel. (I agree. That's hardly an error.)

yes, I agree with you, beeping is often disturbing.  You can disable it,
changing the value of visible-bell to t:

  (setq visible-bell t)

Cheers,
Giuseppe