From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Info tutorial is out of date Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 21:24:07 +0200 Message-ID: <44BA9257.9060602@student.lu.se> References: <87r70l2xza.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153077868 6543 80.91.229.2 (16 Jul 2006 19:24:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 19:24:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 16 21:24:28 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G2CE4-0000iI-Dk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 21:24:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G2CE3-0000TN-UE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 15:24:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G2CDs-0000TE-1K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 15:24:12 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G2CDq-0000Sh-53 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 15:24:11 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G2CDp-0000Sa-UF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 15:24:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.159] (helo=pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G2CGK-0003Lv-VQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 15:26:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.218.244) by pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.075) id 44A135F1003D8043; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 21:24:07 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) Original-To: belanger@truman.edu In-Reply-To: <87r70l2xza.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:57117 Archived-At: Jay Belanger wrote: >> Save the teaching of why it's better to learn to use the keyboard >> for later. >> > > When it will be too late for many. If indeed it is better to use the > keyboard (and I think it is), it seems a bad idea to begin by teaching > bad habits, however easy these habits may be. > I too think that the keyboard is better, but in my mind is right now a song with an awful text: "If you want to teach them they can't learn then make sure they have to learn a lot of details at once." I am sure someone has some better text for this! ;-)