Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Brian Elmegaard <brian@rk-speed-rugby.dk>
> Date: 19 Mar 2005 14:41:11 +0100
> 
> Four fundamental issues would be: [1] Possibility for horizontal
> scroll, [2] sizeable and cascadable windows instead of buffers inside
> the same frame, [3] heavy extension of the icon toolbars and [4]
> distinction between 'open' and 'new' file.

With the exception of the last one, these are all advanced stuff, not
something a newbie would stumble on, IMHO.

> Keys which would make emacs more "normal":
> M-F4 for exiting would be one.

This is the function of the window manager.  Where Emacs runs under a
window manager, Alt-F4 does close it.

> C-TAB for frame/window/buffer (depending on changes according to [2])
> switching.

Where did you see this key binding?