From: adamsonj@email.unc.edu (Joel J. Adamson)
To: Davin Pearson <davin.pearson@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Binding C-a to select all
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:36:20 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bq1pnyzf.fsf@edna.homeunix.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c931081f-99f9-468f-8936-243997201672@w5g2000prd.googlegroups.com> (Davin Pearson's message of "Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:55:41 -0700 (PDT)")
Davin Pearson <davin.pearson@gmail.com> writes:
> I am using Emacs to teach computer programming to computer novices
They'll continue being novices unless forced out of their comfort
zones.
What I mean is that if you get them to learn the Emacs way, suddenly
they'll be advanced computer users ;)
> and therefore I need to modify Emacs to make it more like a standard
> Windows application.
I disagree that you need to: at least some of the people in your class
will find Emacs keybindings (and the rest of the interface) more
comfortable and logical, and they'll see why they've been so frustrated
with "standard Windows" applications.
Joel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-25 18:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-25 1:55 Binding C-a to select all Davin Pearson
2008-06-25 3:19 ` B. T. Raven
2008-06-25 4:33 ` Davin Pearson
2008-06-25 5:23 ` Jordan Greenberg
2008-06-25 6:02 ` Joost Kremers
2008-06-25 7:52 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-06-25 7:58 ` Davin Pearson
2008-06-25 18:36 ` Joel J. Adamson [this message]
2008-06-25 23:12 ` Xah
2008-06-30 18:21 ` Miles Bader
2008-07-01 17:32 ` Joel J. Adamson
[not found] ` <mailman.13837.1214419304.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-06-26 0:34 ` Xah
2008-06-26 2:58 ` Joel J. Adamson
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