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Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?


From: Marcin Borkowski
Subject: Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 16:48:39 +0100
User-agent: mu4e 0.9.13; emacs 25.1.50.6

On 2016-03-10, at 16:42, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:

>> From: address@hidden (Phillip Lord)
>> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
>> Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 15:07:26 +0000
>> 
>> The tutorial is not wrong, nor is it missing anything. It's just
>> didactically from a different time, and I am sure it's putting many
>> people off.
>
> I think we'd welcome patches to bring it to this time, thanks.

The question is: should the tutorial be patched, or rewritten from
scratch?

Emacs used to be a text editor.  Now it is almost an operating system,
with email clients, Org-mode etc.  Maybe (maybe!) the tutorial should
e.g. mention Org-mode?

Best,

-- 
Marcin Borkowski
http://octd.wmi.amu.edu.pl/en/Marcin_Borkowski
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University



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