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: My emacs was upgraded and I am a novice again Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:49:13 +0200 Message-ID: References: <46F2BA57.3060604@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1190368445 5393 80.91.229.12 (21 Sep 2007 09:54:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:54:05 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 21 11:54:04 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IYfCy-00088x-Qe for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:54:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IYfCw-0005QK-Ph for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:53:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IYf8P-0004gk-Cf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:49:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IYf8M-0004fq-GK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:49:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IYf8L-0004fc-Du for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:49:13 -0400 Original-Received: from heller.inter.net.il ([213.8.233.23]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IYf8K-00020P-Oc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:49:13 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-229-123-46.inter.net.il [84.229.123.46]) by heller.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3a-GA) with ESMTP id DRI95201 (AUTH halo1); Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:49:10 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <46F2BA57.3060604@gmail.com> (message from Bruce Korb on Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:22:15 -0700) X-Detected-Kernel: FreeBSD 4.7-5.2 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.4) (2) 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:47717 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:22:15 -0700 > From: Bruce Korb > > 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.