From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: My emacs was upgraded and I am a novice again
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:49:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ud4wc1h7q.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46F2BA57.3060604@gmail.com> (message from Bruce Korb on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:22:15 -0700)
> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:22:15 -0700
> From: Bruce Korb <Bruce.Korb@gmail.com>
>
> The main novice problem is that I cannot get out of novice mode.
> It does not seem to matter that I've been using emacs for 20 years.
> ``appropos novice'' yields nothing.
How did you come up with the string "novice" as something to look for?
The Emacs manual describes this feature as "disabled command", and
both "M-x apropos disabled" and "i disabled" in the manual find quite
a few hits.
> I just want all these nonsense "novice" confirmation junk turned off
> and I want it easy to find. Why is that too much to ask? :(
There was never such a user setting in Emacs. You always had to
enable each command individually (unless you are an advanced user and
know how to set a function to nil without causing damage).
I can understand why adding such a feature would be a good idea,
though (although I personally never had a need for it in the 20 years
I use Emacs). Feel free to suggest adding such a feature one the
development list.
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2007-09-20 18:22 My emacs was upgraded and I am a novice again Bruce Korb
2007-09-20 23:40 ` David Hansen
2007-09-21 9:49 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2007-09-21 11:21 ` Dave Pawson
[not found] ` <mailman.1105.1190373701.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-21 11:36 ` Joost Kremers
2007-09-21 17:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-21 19:17 ` Tom Tromey
2007-09-22 5:04 ` Dave Pawson
2007-09-22 7:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-22 8:56 ` Dave Pawson
2007-09-22 9:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-22 13:12 ` Dave Pawson
2007-09-22 14:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-22 16:26 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-22 16:23 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-22 16:37 ` Dave Pawson
2007-09-22 18:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-22 18:36 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.1154.1190466767.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-23 7:45 ` Tim X
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2007-09-23 6:49 ` Tim X
2007-09-23 8:26 ` Dave Pawson
2007-09-23 11:13 ` Bastien
2007-09-23 16:14 ` Tom Tromey
2007-09-23 19:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1193.1190574615.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-24 0:38 ` Johan Bockgård
2007-09-24 4:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-25 8:54 ` Tim X
[not found] ` <mailman.1189.1190565460.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-23 16:52 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-23 17:27 ` Tom Tromey
[not found] ` <mailman.1192.1190569877.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-23 18:03 ` Joost Kremers
2007-10-17 23:19 ` David Combs
[not found] ` <mailman.1147.1190437481.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.\x04org>
2007-09-23 5:56 ` Tim X
2007-09-23 7:18 ` Dave Pawson
2007-09-23 5:01 ` Tim X
2007-09-23 6:25 ` Dave Pawson
2007-09-24 0:15 ` Sean Sieger
[not found] ` <mailman.1172.1190528732.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-23 8:18 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-23 8:56 ` Dave Pawson
2007-09-23 19:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.\x041177.1190537774.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-23 9:25 ` David Kastrup
2007-10-17 23:23 ` AH HA! it's a MENU item! " David Combs
2007-09-24 4:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-24 8:36 ` David Hansen
2007-09-24 21:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-24 22:41 ` Emre Sahin
2007-09-24 23:10 ` Bastien
2007-09-25 15:47 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-25 21:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-25 21:46 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-26 9:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-26 14:47 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-26 15:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-26 16:10 ` Drew Adams
2007-09-25 4:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-25 11:06 ` Emre Sahin
2007-09-25 21:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1254.1190675441.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-25 5:52 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-25 7:08 ` Bastien
2007-09-24 8:05 ` Tim X
2007-09-24 16:12 ` Sean Sieger
[not found] <mailman.1081.1190330833.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-09-21 4:35 ` Glenn Morris
2007-09-23 20:17 ` Tom Horsley
2007-09-23 20:31 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-24 10:51 ` Tom Horsley
2007-09-24 21:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-09-25 8:57 ` Tim X
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2007-10-06 18:44 Bruce Korb
[not found] <mailman.1779.1191696304.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-10-07 5:45 ` Tim X
2007-10-10 17:16 ` Stefan Monnier
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