From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Info tutorial is out of date Date: 18 Jul 2006 12:57:37 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153241897 32440 80.91.229.2 (18 Jul 2006 16:58:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:58:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 18 18:58:15 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 1G2stM-00078b-FK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 18:57:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G2stM-0001UQ-1N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:57:52 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G2stB-0001UI-9E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:57:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G2st9-0001Tu-E5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:57:40 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G2st9-0001Tr-At for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:57:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [67.59.132.6] (helo=mail.agora-net.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1G2sw4-00053w-Tj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 13:00:41 -0400 Original-Received: from ttn by mail.agora-net.com with local (Exim 4.50) id 1G2st7-0001tJ-W8; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 12:57:38 -0400 Original-To: "Drew Adams" In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 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:57278 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" writes: > It's just that learning that first gets in the way of learning the > real subject matter of Info: getting information from the manual. sometimes people get info from a manual by sequential browsing. for some manuals/people/situations, this is the most natural way. the attitude is not "i want to find out foo, don't hold me back and waste my time w/ anything that is not foo!". instead, it is "i think foo is in there somewhere, i'll just look over this stuff before and around it while i'm at it. who knows? these might be related to foo or make it even clearer when i find it." thi