From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs learning curve Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 09:55:47 +0300 Message-ID: <83zkxzakr0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <10954D02-E217-49F3-8824-757DA34074AB@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278745113 17773 80.91.229.12 (10 Jul 2010 06:58:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 06:58:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: yamato@redhat.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Noah Lavine Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 10 08:58:30 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OXU17-0004WT-CU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 08:58:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37645 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OXU16-000848-Su for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:58:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34861 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OXU0r-00081u-TY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:58:18 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OXU0q-0007aQ-QP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:58:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:34536) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OXU0q-0007aC-Gl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:58:12 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0L5B00000XY5DZ00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 09:57:55 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.120.144]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0L5B00JWBY0EM3C0@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 09:57:51 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <10954D02-E217-49F3-8824-757DA34074AB@gmail.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:126982 Archived-At: > From: Noah Lavine > Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 15:12:51 -0400 > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > > The big issue, I think, is discovering what Emacs can do. I know that > Emacs is *potentially* extremely powerful, but I don't know enough to > make use of this power. The Emacs Starter Kit showed me some things, and > I found a few more through different web pages, but I think I still > don't know very much. I don't know where I would find Emacs features > that are useful for me. Doesn't the manual help discovering what Emacs can do? Why do you need to search the Internet when you have most of the stuff right under your fingertips?