Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals

[Robert Thorpe]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> 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.

There could be a link to the Emacs Tour somewhere near the start of the
tutorial, that would help.

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/

BR,
Robert Thorpe