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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE, mlang@delysid.org,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: German tutorial fix
Date: Fri, 17 May 2002 13:28:39 -0600 (MDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200205171928.g4HJSdw20390@aztec.santafe.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3277-Thu16May2002155214+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il>

    IMHO, the tutorial needs to be reworked, now that basic cursor motion
    is no longer a mystery for novices.  So the "BASIC CURSOR CONTROL"
    section should be a lot shorter than it is now.  It should just tell
    that cursor motion keys ``work as usual'', and show the keyboard
    equivalents of the editing keys (C-n for <down>, C-f for <right>,
    etc.), telling the new users they are advised to learn them because
    those keys allow for faster typing.

I have doubts about this change.

    What I think we don't need is to explain, demonstrate, and drill the
    user in basic cursor motion.

Drilling them is what teaches them to use C-f rather than an arrow key.
So maybe it is still worth while to drill them.

    too much.  Some ideas for things to add:

      - Options menu and Customize
      - Frames
      - Region and the mark
      - Command history in the minibuffer
      - M-x compile and M-x grep

The region seems like the most important one to add.
The others don't seem basic enough.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-05-17 19:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-14 13:07 German tutorial fix Mario Lang
2002-05-14 15:05 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-16  7:22   ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-16 10:37     ` Kai Großjohann
2002-05-16 12:52       ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-16 14:10         ` Andreas Fuchs
2002-05-16 15:37           ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-17 19:28         ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2002-05-18  0:44           ` Francesco Potorti`
2002-05-18  2:00             ` Miles Bader
2002-05-18  7:17               ` Andreas Fuchs
2002-05-18 11:59               ` Francesco Potorti`
2002-05-18 12:12                 ` Miles Bader
2002-05-18 12:55                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-18 13:11                     ` Andreas Fuchs
2002-05-19  4:56                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-19  5:30                       ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-18 20:36                     ` Kim F. Storm
2002-05-20 22:58                   ` Francesco Potorti`
2002-05-19  5:30                 ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-19 12:54                   ` Alex Schroeder
2002-05-19 13:30                     ` Miles Bader
2002-05-19 14:47                       ` Stefan Monnier
2002-05-19 15:26                       ` Alex Schroeder
2002-05-19 16:10                         ` Miles Bader
2002-05-20 10:47                           ` Alex Schroeder
2002-05-23 19:45                         ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-05-23 23:45                           ` Alex Schroeder
2002-05-20 14:48                       ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-18 14:18               ` Alex Schroeder
2002-05-18  6:44             ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-19 19:44             ` Robert J. Chassell
2002-05-20 14:40               ` Mario Lang
2002-05-20 21:13                 ` Colin Walters
2002-05-17 19:28       ` Richard Stallman
2002-05-15  0:13 ` Werner LEMBERG
2002-05-15  4:41   ` Eli Zaretskii

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