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Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals


From: Phillip Lord
Subject: Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals
Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 14:39:31 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux)

Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org> writes:

> Vaidheeswaran C <vaidheeswaran.chinnaraju@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> What would be the best way to learn Emacs.  Is it
>>
>> a) Through the different Manuals (there are many and they are big)
>>
>> b) Through a Book that puts all of the different pieces together in a
>>    concise mannner.
>
> The best way to learn emacs is the tutorial (C-h t).

I wish this were true. Actually, the tutorial is not a good
introduction to emacs. It's over 200 lines before you get off "how to
move the cursor around". Most people these days assume that you do this
with the mouse or a finger and that doesn't take 200 lines to explain.
Works with Emacs too.

There are other introductions out there, and one of the needs to be
integrated into Emacs.

Phil



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