Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 19:23:35 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> > 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.

Btw, it could just be that the "someone intrigued" use case could be
better served by a separate document, also reachable from Help.  It
is, after all, quite a different goal -- to "sell" Emacs to newcomers,
rather than teach them to use it.