Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord)
> Cc: <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 18:20:38 +0100
> 
> I talk about the UI basics because you have to know what "buffer" means
> or the menu makes little sense ("Buffers" or "Eval Buffer" from python).
> And it does assume from the start that you are using a graphical display
> system. The current tutorial gets onto those in line 974 (give or take a
> bit).

That's because the current tutorial doesn't describe a term until it
is actually used.  As long as you type in a single buffer, you don't
need to know that buffers exist.