From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 21:04:23 +0300 Message-ID: <83vbfzkn2w.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87egmqc2c9.fsf@mbork.pl> <83d22ap4ze.fsf@gnu.org> <87k2wfl6mo.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <83617zm78t.fsf@gnu.org> <87d227hvyx.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1431367499 18924 80.91.229.3 (11 May 2015 18:04:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 18:04:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 11 20:04:52 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Yrs4S-0008DW-BE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 May 2015 20:04:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39029 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yrs4R-0004sO-Ac for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 May 2015 14:04:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57363) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yrs4G-0004s2-DD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2015 14:04:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yrs4C-0004Ke-AJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2015 14:04:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:55393) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Yrs4C-0004KF-1y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2015 14:04:36 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NO7009005YSP400@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2015 21:04:34 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NO7009B367LKI30@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 May 2015 21:04:34 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87d227hvyx.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:104399 Archived-At: > From: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) > Cc: > Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 18:20:38 +0100 > > I talk about the UI basics because you have to know what "buffer" means > or the menu makes little sense ("Buffers" or "Eval Buffer" from python). > And it does assume from the start that you are using a graphical display > system. The current tutorial gets onto those in line 974 (give or take a > bit). That's because the current tutorial doesn't describe a term until it is actually used. As long as you type in a single buffer, you don't need to know that buffers exist.