Re: Emacs terminology (not again!?) [was: Apologia for bzr]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: address@hidden (Phillip Lord)
> Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:22:45 +0000
> 
> For what it is worth, I think Emacs could do with some considerable
> improvement on the "self-documenting" front. A student of mine recently
> asked about tutorials for Emacs. Of course, I said, it's got one
> built-in, to which the response was that it was rubbish.
> 
> So I went and looked at it for the first time in many years. I think he
> has a point.

Indeed.  Volunteers are welcome to work on this.

> Worse the first 200 lines are all about how to move the cursor;

But let's be fair: the tutorial starts by saying that arrow keys and
PgUp/PgDn are also supported.

> If there is interest in incorporating it, I'd be willing to rewrite it.

Please do, and thanks in advance.