From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: drain Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Crockford's video, and why emacs vi is the way they are Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 06:52:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1350136362347-267062.post@n5.nabble.com> References: <380a4d30-ed5e-4f7d-b529-61f9261506b9@p5g2000pbs.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1350136369 9189 80.91.229.3 (13 Oct 2012 13:52:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2012 13:52:49 +0000 (UTC) To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 13 15:52:56 2012 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 1TN29A-0000Mw-B7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 15:52:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45093 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TN293-0006Td-O5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:52:49 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:53223) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TN28y-0006TN-E6 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:52:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TN28x-0001pd-Gu for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:52:44 -0400 Original-Received: from sam.nabble.com ([216.139.236.26]:49094) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TN28x-0001pY-Co for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 09:52:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.236.26] (helo=sam.nabble.com) by sam.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1TN28w-0007KQ-Bh for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 13 Oct 2012 06:52:42 -0700 In-Reply-To: <380a4d30-ed5e-4f7d-b529-61f9261506b9@p5g2000pbs.googlegroups.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 216.139.236.26 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:87240 Archived-At: There should be an option, provided at the beginning of the built-in tutorial, to switch into microsoft-word-mode, notepad-mode, gedit-mode, etc., semi-emulating the popular text editors, even down to the menu options and positions, with the goal of weaning users off the originals, keeping them in the Emacs environment. It would also emphasize that what matters are the functions, not the default bindings. -- View this message in context: http://emacs.1067599.n5.nabble.com/Crockford-s-video-and-why-emacs-vi-is-the-way-they-are-tp267032p267062.html Sent from the Emacs - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.