From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
To: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 15:26:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2fuvxgbiu.fsf@newartisans.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y49q64eg.fsf@russet.org.uk> (Phillip Lord's message of "Thu, 10 Mar 2016 09:58:15 +0000")
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>>>>> Phillip Lord <phillip.lord@russet.org.uk> writes:
> The arrows keys work perfectly well in my experience. In addition, there is
> the mouse.
We should avoid thinking that the audience for a tutorial has our same biases.
Arrows and mouse are terribly slow if one is used to having their fingers on
the home row. That said, there are indeed people for whom an arrow-key-and-
mouse tutorial would be better suited.
A good tutorial is readable and helpful to all audiences, not just for those
whom we presume have the same predilections as ourselves.
anyone who suggests we do away with mentioning C-npfb because *they* don't use
those keys is making a mistake, in my opinion, by neglecting readers who would
benefit from learning about the n/p/f/b paradigm (which is pervasive
throughout Emacs, such as M-n, n in dired, C-M-n, C-c C-n, etc).
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Thread overview: 76+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-09 15:38 Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc? Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-03-09 15:50 ` jpff
2016-03-09 15:50 ` Oleh Krehel
2016-03-09 16:03 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-03-09 18:25 ` Yuri Khan
2016-03-10 20:28 ` Alexey Veretennikov
2016-03-09 16:48 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-09 18:26 ` Yuri Khan
2016-03-09 19:05 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-09 19:07 ` Drew Adams
2016-03-09 19:21 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-10 5:48 ` Tom
2016-03-09 16:12 ` Phillip Lord
2016-03-09 16:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-09 17:11 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-03-09 20:22 ` John Wiegley
2016-03-09 21:32 ` Tim Cross
2016-03-09 21:42 ` John Wiegley
2016-03-10 0:30 ` Evgeny Panasyuk
2016-03-10 5:54 ` Tom
2016-03-10 7:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-10 12:49 ` Evgeny Panasyuk
2016-03-10 21:22 ` Richard Stallman
2016-03-10 21:39 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-10 22:06 ` Evgeny Panasyuk
2016-03-12 1:53 ` Richard Stallman
2016-03-10 6:46 ` Richard Stallman
2016-03-10 9:58 ` Phillip Lord
2016-03-10 10:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-10 14:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-10 15:07 ` Phillip Lord
2016-03-10 15:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-10 15:48 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-03-10 16:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-10 17:47 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-03-11 11:21 ` Filipp Gunbin
2016-03-11 11:38 ` Yuri Khan
2016-03-11 14:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-11 16:57 ` Phillip Lord
2016-03-11 17:34 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-03-11 18:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-11 22:00 ` Phillip Lord
2016-03-12 6:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-12 7:17 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-03-12 23:30 ` Phillip Lord
2016-03-12 23:26 ` Phillip Lord
2016-03-12 1:52 ` Richard Stallman
2016-03-10 23:26 ` John Wiegley [this message]
2016-03-11 2:10 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-11 8:01 ` Dani Moncayo
2016-03-13 10:54 ` H. Dieter Wilhelm
2016-03-13 17:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-11 16:45 ` Phillip Lord
2016-03-12 19:25 ` Richard Stallman
2016-03-12 20:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-13 11:36 ` Tom
2016-03-13 16:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-13 17:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-03-13 17:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-13 18:41 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-13 19:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-13 19:14 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-13 20:27 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-03-14 12:16 ` Richard Stallman
2016-03-14 14:14 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-15 15:19 ` Richard Stallman
2016-03-13 19:46 ` Phillip Lord
2016-03-13 20:15 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-03-14 12:15 ` Richard Stallman
2016-03-14 12:15 ` Richard Stallman
2016-03-14 16:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-12 21:34 ` John Wiegley
2016-03-12 23:33 ` Phillip Lord
2016-03-12 1:50 ` Richard Stallman
2016-03-12 19:14 ` Chad Brown
2016-03-12 21:05 ` Evgeny Panasyuk
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