From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals Date: Fri, 08 May 2015 14:39:31 +0100 Message-ID: <87zj5fgpd8.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> References: <87fv77barj.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1431092412 5776 80.91.229.3 (8 May 2015 13:40:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 13:40:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 08 15:40:08 2015 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 1YqiVV-0004vQ-W8 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 May 2015 15:40:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55886 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YqiVV-0001qn-BK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 08 May 2015 09:40:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43587) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YqiVB-0001lo-04 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2015 09:39:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YqiV7-0004vW-R5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2015 09:39:40 -0400 Original-Received: from cheviot12.ncl.ac.uk ([128.240.234.12]:57688) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YqiV7-0004v7-LC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2015 09:39:37 -0400 Original-Received: from smtpauth-vm.ncl.ac.uk ([10.8.233.129] helo=smtpauth.ncl.ac.uk) by cheviot12.ncl.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1YqiV2-0006z6-AF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2015 14:39:32 +0100 Original-Received: from jangai.ncl.ac.uk ([10.66.67.223] helo=localhost) by smtpauth.ncl.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1YqiV2-00024D-3N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2015 14:39:32 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87fv77barj.fsf@gnu.org> (Tassilo Horn's message of "Fri, 8 May 2015 12:53:52 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 128.240.234.12 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:104296 Archived-At: Tassilo Horn writes: > Vaidheeswaran C writes: > >> What would be the best way to learn Emacs. Is it >> >> a) Through the different Manuals (there are many and they are big) >> >> b) Through a Book that puts all of the different pieces together in a >> concise mannner. > > The best way to learn emacs is the tutorial (C-h t). I wish this were true. Actually, the tutorial is not a good introduction to emacs. It's over 200 lines before you get off "how to move the cursor around". Most people these days assume that you do this with the mouse or a finger and that doesn't take 200 lines to explain. Works with Emacs too. There are other introductions out there, and one of the needs to be integrated into Emacs. Phil