Re: An anonymous IRC user's opinion

["Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide" <arne_bab@web.de>]

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"Abraham S.A.H." via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org> writes:

>> No. Any software that says that you have to read the manual first is
>> doomed to fail for most people.
> Best is to make tools that can be used without reading manuals or
> education, as much as possible; while still keeping them
> well-documented and well-recorded.

I wholeheartedly agree.

> I think more than half of
> the programs that I have on my Linux system are useless without their
> docs and manuals.  

That’s different for me, but I enjoy the Guile info manual a lot;
especially read from Emacs. That’s often nicer that Googling for
solutions with Python.

> All these examples of software and hardware don’t seem to be doomed or
> going to be doomed.  Any tool needs prior knowledge at some degree.

For most tools you already have that prior knowledge from other
software; and often you can discover by trial and error (just clicking
buttons).

Which key is an awesome improvement for this discovery. Clicking ESC
even shows all M- bindings.

And I just learned about C-h b. That’s a command we should show more
prominently.

Best wishes,
Arne
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