From: chad <yandros@gmail.com>
To: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
Cc: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>, EMACS development team <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: indent-tabs-mode default [was: Representation of the Emacs userbase on emacs-devel]
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2021 14:47:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAO2hHWaJ1q0jQojZKhiEqQEyoSADnSV6v3WOJr+2VjqqCgB84g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lf4akq0k.fsf@gmail.com>
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On Mon, Sep 6, 2021 at 2:33 AM Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Perhaps you did not, but what most people do when confronted by a new
> > tool used for a certain task is to look up the relevant documentation on
> > the tool, and to give it a thorough reading, before actually using the
> > tool.
> >
>
> Definitely not my experience and I expect if that was the norm, we would
> never have coined RTFM.
>
This particular experience is quite old at this point, but I had occasion
to both support Emacs and also be part of the user support system for MIT
students for well over a decade. During that time I helped many hundreds of
people use emacs without reading the manual, much less a thorough reading.
My loose contacts there suggest that the situation is still pretty much the
same.
Hope that helps,
~Chad
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-07 21:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-03 17:49 indent-tabs-mode default [was: Representation of the Emacs userbase on emacs-devel] Drew Adams
2021-09-03 18:35 ` Kaushal Modi
2021-09-04 2:21 ` Po Lu
2021-09-04 4:16 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-04 11:32 ` Po Lu
2021-09-04 14:44 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-05 0:37 ` Po Lu
2021-09-05 0:40 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-05 3:20 ` Po Lu
2021-09-05 3:37 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-05 5:39 ` Po Lu
2021-09-05 7:09 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-05 19:31 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-06 1:19 ` Po Lu
2021-09-06 2:22 ` Tim Cross
2021-09-06 3:35 ` Po Lu
2021-09-06 4:11 ` Tim Cross
2021-09-06 5:40 ` Po Lu
2021-09-06 6:40 ` Tim Cross
2021-09-06 7:57 ` Po Lu
2021-09-06 8:13 ` Tim Cross
2021-09-06 11:13 ` Po Lu
2021-09-07 21:47 ` chad [this message]
2021-09-06 23:32 ` Drew Adams
2021-09-04 2:39 ` Tim Cross
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-08-26 16:20 Gitlab Migration Daniel Fleischer
2021-08-26 17:24 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-08-27 7:00 ` Daniel Fleischer
2021-08-27 11:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-27 14:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-08-27 21:09 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-08-28 6:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-29 2:27 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-08-30 2:58 ` Richard Stallman
2021-08-30 12:20 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-08-31 3:09 ` Richard Stallman
2021-08-31 11:43 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-08-31 16:21 ` John Yates
2021-08-31 16:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-08-31 19:17 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-08-31 19:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-01 11:35 ` John Yates
2021-09-02 3:38 ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-02 19:02 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-03 6:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-03 6:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-03 10:59 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-06 3:06 ` indent-tabs-mode default [was: Representation of the Emacs userbase on emacs-devel] Richard Stallman
2021-09-06 12:23 ` Dmitry Gutov
2021-09-06 23:32 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-09-06 23:38 ` Dmitry Gutov
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