From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Can anybody tell me how to send HTML-format mail in gnus
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:52:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48A06E69.3080409@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86sktb7brx.fsf@lifelogs.com>
Ted Zlatanov wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:49:21 +0200 "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>> I'm saying exactly what I said: Emacs has always been aimed at people
>>> who can read a manual. That may, to you, imply "tech geek" but I think
>
> LB> I think that may be true, but please notice that even if this is true
> LB> Emacs should be as easy to learn as possible - without loosing power
> LB> of course.
>
> I agree, but I'm saying you have to learn Emacs with a manual and then
> it's easy. You can't (easily) do it by exploring. The user interface
> is not discoverable or familiar to new users, which is what people
> usually mean by "easy to learn."
I believe that learning by doing is often more effective, especially
since "doing" is what you need with Emacs. Familiarity is perhaps where
this begins? Or curiousness?
But I think you must be able to start easily to take advantage of
learning by doing in the beginning.
> This is the big barrier all effective
> Emacs users have faced and surmounted by digging into documentation,
> books, tutorials, etc.
>
> Ted
>
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2008-08-05 16:44 Can anybody tell me how to send HTML-format mail in gnus M.T
2008-08-06 19:17 ` Evans Winner
2008-08-06 20:37 ` M.T
2008-08-07 5:09 ` Tim X
2008-08-07 14:34 ` Xah
2008-08-07 15:17 ` Cor Gest
2008-08-07 16:50 ` Xah
2008-08-07 17:14 ` M.T
2008-08-07 18:32 ` Xah
2008-08-07 18:07 ` Evans Winner
2008-08-08 12:20 ` Xah
2008-08-08 15:15 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-08-08 15:39 ` Xah
2008-08-08 19:00 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-08-09 19:18 ` Xah
2008-08-11 14:52 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-08-11 15:49 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-11 19:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-11 19:27 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-08-11 19:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-11 19:31 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-11 19:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-11 20:14 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-12 19:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-12 19:22 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-12 19:27 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-08-11 20:20 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
[not found] ` <mailman.16396.1218482758.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-11 20:57 ` Emacs usability (was: Can anybody tell me how to send HTML-format mail in gnus) Ted Zlatanov
2008-08-11 22:14 ` Emacs usability Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-08-12 7:37 ` Emacs usability (was: Can anybody tell me how to send HTML-format mail in gnus) Xah
2008-08-12 14:14 ` Emacs usability Ted Zlatanov
2008-08-12 14:48 ` Xah
2008-08-12 14:55 ` Emacs usability (was: Can anybody tell me how to send HTML-format mail in gnus) Xah
2008-08-12 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.16413.1218492872.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-12 14:17 ` Emacs usability Ted Zlatanov
2008-08-11 16:03 ` Can anybody tell me how to send HTML-format mail in gnus Xah
[not found] ` <mailman.16376.1218469770.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-11 16:32 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-08-11 16:52 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2008-08-08 15:42 ` Cor Gest
2008-08-07 18:12 ` Cor Gest
2008-08-08 4:59 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2008-08-08 5:54 ` Tim X
2008-08-08 13:11 ` Xah
2008-08-08 14:56 ` Phil Carmody
2008-08-08 15:42 ` Xah
2008-08-08 17:06 ` Phil Carmody
2008-08-08 17:22 ` Xah
2008-08-08 18:24 ` Cor Gest
2008-08-09 19:41 ` Xah
2008-08-09 21:03 ` Cor Gest
2008-08-09 22:23 ` Xah
2008-08-11 5:03 ` Charles philip Chan
[not found] ` <mailman.16348.1218431146.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-11 5:44 ` Xah
2008-08-11 7:30 ` Charles philip Chan
[not found] ` <mailman.16351.1218439913.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-11 8:16 ` Xah
2008-08-08 22:15 ` Phil Carmody
2008-08-09 10:16 ` Xah
2008-08-09 13:19 ` Sean Sieger
[not found] ` <mailman.16182.1218288014.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-09 14:19 ` Xah
2008-08-10 9:52 ` Phil Carmody
2008-08-10 17:28 ` Xah
2008-08-08 15:19 ` Tim X
2008-08-08 17:14 ` Xah
2008-08-09 9:55 ` Tim X
[not found] ` <mailman.16065.1218171579.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-08 12:35 ` Xah
2008-08-09 5:54 ` qingant
2008-08-09 8:13 ` Phil Carmody
2008-08-09 14:34 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-08-06 22:21 ` Jashy
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2008-08-07 22:23 Emmett Grogan
2008-08-08 8:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-08-08 8:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] <mailman.16059.1218168664.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-08 13:17 ` Xah
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