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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Is OpenUsability something for Emacs?
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:30:14 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ejvacaqx.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EIENLHALHGIMHGDOLMIMOEKLCKAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:35:05 -0700")

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>     >  RS> One can't expect users to know about that command.  In order for
>     >  RS> that to be the solution to the no-mouse problem, something on the
>     >  RS> screen needs to say how to use it.
>     >
>     > Usability is about using things, not about learning to use
>     > things. Would you like to have every possible Emacs keybinding shown
>     > on the screen?
>
>     When you start up Emacs, it does display some basic keybindings, and
>     tells you how to get help.
>
> Perhaps also let the start-up screen explictly mention `C-h b'?  E.g.,
>
>   `C-h b' shows you all available key bindings in any buffer.

I don't think `C-h b' is useful for new users; it overwhelms with too
much information.  The current startup screen seems sufficient.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-21 16:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-19 15:15 Is OpenUsability something for Emacs? Lennart Borgman
2006-08-19 20:26 ` Robert J. Chassell
2006-08-20  4:32 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-20  8:37   ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-20 11:24     ` Paul Pogonyshev
2006-08-20 13:45       ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-21 11:12       ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-21 11:23         ` Mikhail Gusarov
2006-08-21 11:45           ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-21 14:03           ` Chong Yidong
2006-08-21 15:35             ` Drew Adams
2006-08-21 16:30               ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2006-08-22  7:42               ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-22  7:42           ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-21 11:12     ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-21 11:34       ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-22 22:22     ` David Hansen
2006-08-23  2:24     ` Miles Bader
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-08-21  0:58 Mikiya Matsuzaka

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