From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) Cc: hw@adminart.net, eliz@gnu.org, spacibba@aol.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Subject: Re: Some developement questions Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2018 02:26:03 -0400 [thread overview] Message-ID: <E1fxRGN-0005mj-Gc@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw) In-Reply-To: <87bm9d9zs9.fsf@russet.org.uk> (phillip.lord@russet.org.uk) [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Yeah. Most of that stuff is "move cursor back and forward". It's too > slow for most new users and freaks them out. While it was well intended > at the time, I think, it is now a negative feature of the tutorial. Users need to learn these commands in order to edit _efficiently_ with Emacs. But maybe most beginners will not aim to edit _efficiently_ and it is ok not to teach them this. > I would like to add automation which would work better. So where it says > "create a new frame", it would be nice to have a click button which > actually does this for you. I don't follow. Concretely, what do you propose, and what is good about it? -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
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2018-08-17 20:49 ` Some developement questions Ergus
2018-08-18 6:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-22 12:34 ` hw
2018-08-22 14:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-22 16:37 ` hw
2018-08-22 17:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2018-08-23 0:20 ` Ergus
2018-08-23 10:50 ` hw
2018-08-23 16:33 ` Ergus
2018-08-23 14:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-23 8:26 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2018-08-23 14:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-24 1:00 ` hw
2018-08-24 9:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-25 0:45 ` Ergus
2018-08-26 12:46 ` hw
2018-08-25 1:31 ` hw
2018-08-25 7:35 ` Alexis
2018-08-25 10:34 ` Ergus
2018-08-25 16:11 ` Radon Rosborough
2018-08-25 16:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-25 20:34 ` Ergus
2018-08-26 2:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-26 1:24 ` Radon Rosborough
2018-08-25 20:50 ` Ergus
2018-08-26 1:33 ` hw
2018-08-26 14:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-26 22:51 ` hw
2018-08-27 14:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-28 20:42 ` hw
2018-08-29 6:59 ` Michael Albinus
2018-08-29 20:10 ` hw
2018-08-31 13:16 ` Michael Albinus
2018-09-01 17:53 ` hw
2018-09-03 13:35 ` Michael Albinus
2018-09-04 14:06 ` hw
2018-08-29 15:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-29 20:52 ` hw
2018-08-29 22:12 ` Filipp Gunbin
2018-08-30 23:49 ` hw
2018-09-03 18:56 ` Filipp Gunbin
2018-09-04 14:16 ` hw
2018-09-04 19:47 ` Filipp Gunbin
2018-09-05 20:36 ` hw
2018-09-06 1:33 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-09-06 5:16 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-06 5:29 ` Michael Heerdegen
2018-09-06 13:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2018-09-06 14:30 ` Drew Adams
2018-09-07 7:03 ` hw
2018-09-06 13:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2018-09-06 18:15 ` Filipp Gunbin
2018-09-07 7:18 ` hw
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2018-09-07 21:27 ` hw
2018-09-10 12:29 ` Filipp Gunbin
2018-09-10 18:18 ` hw
2018-09-11 9:51 ` Filipp Gunbin
2018-09-11 20:14 ` hw
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2018-09-01 22:13 ` Phil Sainty
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2018-09-02 22:01 ` Juri Linkov
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2018-09-02 19:05 ` Radon Rosborough
2018-09-02 20:42 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2018-09-03 2:37 ` Radon Rosborough
2018-09-04 15:57 ` hw
2018-08-26 20:41 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-27 2:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-27 22:51 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-27 17:11 ` Filipp Gunbin
2018-08-28 3:41 ` Ergus
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2018-08-25 8:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2018-08-27 4:59 ` hw
2018-08-27 1:54 ` Ergus
2018-08-27 14:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-08-28 21:26 ` Richard Stallman
2018-08-29 15:39 ` Phillip Lord
2018-09-01 13:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-09-02 3:11 ` Richard Stallman
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2018-09-04 15:20 ` Phillip Lord
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2018-09-07 14:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-09-07 14:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2018-09-08 5:13 ` Richard Stallman
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2018-09-08 16:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2018-09-09 6:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2018-09-03 22:15 ` debounce (was: Some developement questions) Juri Linkov
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