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: Issues with emacs Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 19:01:39 +0300 Message-ID: <83bok8bsws.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87bokbb4zw.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340553961 9509 80.91.229.3 (24 Jun 2012 16:06:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 16:06:01 +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 Jun 24 18:06:01 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 1SipK4-0007Fv-RW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 18:06:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38839 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SipK4-0005Lm-OA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 12:06:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59125) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SipK0-0005LS-52 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 12:05:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SipJy-0006Cs-Fo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 12:05:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:55924) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SipFm-0005Ix-PN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 12:01:34 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0M6400H00PUGZR00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 19:01:32 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.210.75]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0M6400HN6PUKLY90@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 19:01:32 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:85429 Archived-At: > Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 15:01:25 +0800 > From: Corentin Henry > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > - At the very beginning, I didn't know where to search ! I was > navigating through pages an pages, and the more I read, the more I had to > read. > - There is no "how to", whereas that's what people want nowadays. I > don't want to spend time reading and understanding how emacs works, through > pages of documentation (even if it is well written) ! I want to be told how > to do what I want. I guess you never read the tutorial, which comes with Emacs. That should have given you both the initial "how to" and the key to reading the rest of the documentation efficiently (as opposed to reading the whole manual chapter after chapter).