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Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals
Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 19:23:35 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 12:12:43 -0400
> 
> > Waste of the student's time, if you ask me.
> 
> You (and the current tutorial) assume that the reader of the tutorial
> has decided he's going to use Emacs and wants to figure out how to use
> it efficiently.
> 
> That's good for that use case.  But there are other use cases, such as
> someone who's intrigued and wants to "check it out".  In that case, the
> tutorial should mostly try and showcase what you can do with Emacs.

Which is why I said (and you elided) that I won't mind if such a
section would be added.



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