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From: Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: C-h and TUTORIAL
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 01:13:01 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040728.011301.41638740.wl@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1BpWWi-0008J3-Oj@fencepost.gnu.org>

From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: C-h and TUTORIAL
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 14:18:12 -0400

>     I suggest to add a new key binding, `C-h T', which should be
>     equal to `C-u C-h t'.  In case a new user hasn't set up a proper
>     language environment, it is hard to find a language-specific
>     version of the TUTORIAL file.
> 
> Is C-h T really that much easier than C-u C-h t?
> I don't see the great improvement.

The very problem is that a new user doesn't know about the `C-u'
prefix argument to the `F1' key.  You have to look up the
documentation of `help-with-tutorial' to find out that a prefix
argument exists, and this is non-intuitive IMHO.  And once you've
typed `C-h ?' or `F1 ?' to find out about the help details, it is too
late to pass a prefix argument too (additionally, it isn't mentioned
in the help screen).


    Werner

  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-07-27 23:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-26  4:48 C-h and TUTORIAL Werner LEMBERG
2004-07-27 18:18 ` Richard Stallman
2004-07-27 18:49   ` Alan Shutko
2004-07-28 16:01     ` Richard Stallman
2004-07-28 16:09       ` David Kastrup
2004-07-27 23:13   ` Werner LEMBERG [this message]
2004-07-28  7:54     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2004-07-28 22:10       ` Richard Stallman
2004-07-29  7:43       ` Miles Bader

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