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From: Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: beginner questions
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 19:37:31 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9063c12b-d331-4f2c-b6f9-b4bb43601603@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.2943.1380217948.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>

On Thursday, September 26, 2013 11:22:06 PM UTC+5:30, Ken Goldman wrote:
> On 9/25/2013 3:55 AM, JohnF wrote:
> 
> 
> >    Most importantly, how to "turn off everything". For example,
> > no html help, e.g., I don't want to see <u>stuff</u> or
> > <h2>stuff</h2> underlined. And really annoying, I don't want
> > the cursor to momentarily jump back to ( after I type (stuff).
> > Ditto <stuff>, etc. Very distracting (to me). Basically,
> > I just want a dumb editor
> 
> 
> 
> For a beginner, I suggest you give 'everything' a try before you turn 
> emacs into a dumb editor.

For every one JohnF who makes the courage to come here and ask there are 10 who find that this something called 'editor' is just too far removed from notepad/Word/vi/gedit/eclipse/whatever to be worth the effort.

[I just had one a few days ago]



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-09-27  2:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-25  7:55 beginner questions JohnF
2013-09-25  9:26 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-25 11:18   ` JohnF
2013-09-25 12:55     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-28  8:39       ` JohnF
2013-09-28 15:30         ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-28 17:11           ` Rustom Mody
2013-09-28 18:07             ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-29  3:45               ` Drew Adams
2013-09-28 22:32             ` Kai Grossjohann
2013-09-29  8:30               ` Drew Adams
2013-09-29  7:27           ` JohnF
2013-09-29 13:45             ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2013-09-30  8:46               ` JohnF
2013-09-26  2:22     ` Jude DaShiell
2013-09-25 17:47 ` Doug Lewan
     [not found] ` <mailman.2869.1380131281.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-26  7:44   ` JohnF
2013-09-26 17:52 ` Ken Goldman
     [not found] ` <mailman.2943.1380217948.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-27  2:37   ` Rustom Mody [this message]
2013-09-28  8:16   ` JohnF
2013-09-28 18:18     ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]     ` <mailman.3090.1380392333.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-09-29  7:58       ` JohnF
2013-10-01 17:27       ` Rustom Mody
2013-10-01 17:57         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-01 20:02         ` Joost Kremers
2013-10-02  0:56         ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]         ` <mailman.3227.1380675393.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-10-02 14:34           ` Rustom Mody

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