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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: C-h K and C-h F in the Help menu
Date: Sun, 21 May 2006 01:16:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <446FA35B.2000103@student.lu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85y7ww8fbq.fsf@lola.goethe.zz>

David Kastrup wrote:
> A novice user will be more comfortable at first using firefox rather
> than info-mode, more comfortable using nautilus rather than dired, and
> more comfortable using nano rather than a major mode from Emacs.
>
> So it would seem that it is better for a novice not to use Emacs at
> all, and consequently we need not accommodate novices according to
> your logic, since they have no business learning Emacs.
>
> Seriously, it does not make sense for Emacs to promote not using Emacs
> when doing so is by far the best solution.
>   
:-)

But my point was that the novice user might be better of learning Emacs 
in small steps. It has been fun arguing with you but I think I have said 
most of what I want to say now.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-20 23:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-20 20:32 C-h K and C-h F in the Help menu Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-20 21:19 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-05-20 21:38   ` David Kastrup
2006-05-20 21:54     ` Lennart Borgman
2006-05-20 22:10       ` David Kastrup
2006-05-20 22:28         ` Lennart Borgman
2006-05-20 22:48           ` David Kastrup
2006-05-20 23:00             ` Lennart Borgman
2006-05-20 23:08               ` David Kastrup
2006-05-20 23:16                 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2006-05-20 23:20                   ` David Kastrup
2006-05-21  3:35                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-21  3:36                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-21  9:31             ` Slawomir Nowaczyk
2006-05-21  3:38           ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-20 22:44         ` Mathias Dahl
2006-05-20 22:56           ` David Kastrup
2006-05-20 23:02             ` Lennart Borgman
2006-05-20 23:09               ` David Kastrup
2006-05-20 23:13                 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-05-20 23:22                   ` David Kastrup
2006-05-21  9:57             ` Mathias Dahl
2006-05-21 10:11               ` David Kastrup
2006-05-21 10:13               ` Andreas Schwab
2006-05-21 18:48               ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-21  3:43       ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-22  2:38         ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-22  2:56           ` Luc Teirlinck
2006-05-22  3:36             ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-22 20:36             ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-22  8:57           ` Lennart Borgman
2006-05-21  4:27     ` Juri Linkov
2006-05-21  3:42   ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-21  7:38     ` Lennart Borgman
2006-05-21 18:46       ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-21 21:04       ` Alan Mackenzie
2006-05-21 23:13         ` Lennart Borgman
2006-05-22 15:12           ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-22 16:53             ` Drew Adams
2006-05-22 21:49               ` Lennart Borgman
2006-05-22 18:39             ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-23  0:42               ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-23  3:21                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-22  3:23         ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-21 17:08   ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-21 17:08   ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-21  4:27 ` Juri Linkov
2006-05-21 17:08 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-26 20:02   ` Eli Zaretskii

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