From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals Date: Sat, 9 May 2015 20:45:47 -0600 Message-ID: <20150509204340504850019@bob.proulx.com> References: <87fv77barj.fsf@gnu.org> <87zj5fgpd8.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <83h9rnp0yy.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1431225968 6107 80.91.229.3 (10 May 2015 02:46:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 02:46:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 10 04:46:03 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 1YrHFj-0001X5-3V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 May 2015 04:46:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60876 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YrHFi-0002Mp-FS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 May 2015 22:46:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45961) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YrHFY-0002MY-Fm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 May 2015 22:45:53 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YrHFV-00024n-Am for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 May 2015 22:45:52 -0400 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com ([216.17.153.58]:49590) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YrHFV-00024f-32 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 May 2015 22:45:49 -0400 Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF4E521232 for ; Sat, 9 May 2015 20:45:47 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8E9E22DC4D; Sat, 9 May 2015 20:45:47 -0600 (MDT) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 216.17.153.58 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:104344 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: > I also talk about indentation (since either they can't imagine that the > editor might do it for them, or on the contrary they're disappointed > that it doesn't happen 100% automatically, or because they're confusing > the TAB key, the insertion of TAB characters, and the notion of > indenting text to a "tabulation point", which they seem to sometimes > take from WYSIWYG word processors). +1. This is one of those very important topics because it is one that most rookies get wrong. It would be great if there were a way to better educate more people about it. Bob