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Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals
Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 17:34:10 +0300

> From: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord)
> Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 14:39:31 +0100
> 
> > 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".

No, it isn't, not in my Emacs.  It mentions PageUp/PageDown on line 65
and arrow keys on line 76.  Subtract 15 lines of typographic
conventions and 13 more lines "left blank for didactic purposes", and
you get 37 and 48 lines to read until one sees these truisms -- a far
cry from 200.



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