From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: GianUberto.Lauri@eng.it (Gian Uberto Lauri) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 10:07:39 +0100 Message-ID: <16957.15707.79279.253809@mail.eng.it> References: <874qf8d3cy.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> <874qf7zlk5.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> <87mzszxlc1.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> <01c52d06$Blat.v2.4$afb8ba60@zahav.net.il> Reply-To: saint@eng.it NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111310239 2070 80.91.229.2 (20 Mar 2005 09:17:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 09:17:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 20 10:17:18 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCwYZ-0001PV-3x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 10:17:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCwpP-00024i-VO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 04:34:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DCwim-00013A-C0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 04:27:45 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DCwig-0000xn-D0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 04:27:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCwif-0000i7-5q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 04:27:37 -0500 Original-Received: from [213.205.33.41] (helo=mail-relay-1.tiscali.it) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DCwPd-0007FG-AO; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 04:07:57 -0500 Original-Received: from cyrano (217.133.20.189) by mail-relay-1.tiscali.it (7.1.021.3) id 4202030C00689A78; Sun, 20 Mar 2005 10:07:56 +0100 Original-To: "Eli Zaretskii" In-Reply-To: <01c52d06$Blat.v2.4$afb8ba60@zahav.net.il> X-Mailer: VM 7.18 under Emacs 21.3.50.1 X-attribution: CC X-Zippy: Disco oil bussing will create a throbbing naugahide pipeline running straight to the tropics from the rug producing regions and devalue the dollar! X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:25018 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25018 >>>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii writes: EZ> Then why did you write ``the theory of emacs key binding''? EZ> What's the ``theory'' thing about? It's not instantly clear that the more slower to access a command is the less frequent is its use, that the choice of the key bindin is mnemonic (at least in English), that when you use control you usually do things on a character basis, with meta on a word basis... Those are things a newbie can't imagine, being trapped in the CUA interface and its limited power... -- /\ ___ /___/\__|_|\_|__|___Gian Uberto Lauri_____________________ //--\ | | \| | Integralista GNUslamico \/ e coltivatore diretto di software