From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs Book Vs Emacs Manuals Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 20:22:10 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <9ac8b7fb-151b-4847-a61a-412d03fd1f7d@googlegroups.com> References: <87fv77barj.fsf@gnu.org> <87zj5fgpd8.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <83h9rnp0yy.fsf@gnu.org> <87r3qnl70z.fsf@newcastle.ac.uk> <837fsfm7gq.fsf@gnu.org> <83zj5bkrqw.fsf@gnu.org> <83y4kvkrf5.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1431401131 7040 80.91.229.3 (12 May 2015 03:25:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 03:25:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 12 05:25:23 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 1Ys0oo-0007x2-Uu for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 May 2015 05:25:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40595 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ys0oo-0003YU-6p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 May 2015 23:25:18 -0400 X-Received: by 10.236.22.74 with SMTP id s50mr24409900yhs.53.1431400931093; Mon, 11 May 2015 20:22:11 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.12.66 with SMTP id w2mr9995igb.11.1431400931067; Mon, 11 May 2015 20:22:11 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!j5no6760725qga.1!news-out.google.com!kd3ni14558igb.0!nntp.google.com!m20no10446982iga.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=117.195.42.207; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 117.195.42.207 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 03:22:11 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:212127 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:104412 Archived-At: On Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 2:09:00 AM UTC+5:30, Marcin Borkowski wrote: > On 2015-05-11, at 18:30, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >=20 > > Btw, it could just be that the "someone intrigued" use case could be > > better served by a separate document, also reachable from Help. It > > is, after all, quite a different goal -- to "sell" Emacs to newcomers, > > rather than teach them to use it. >=20 > No. /This/ should be reachable by C-x C-c. >=20 > "So you want to quit. Before you go, let me show you what I can do for > you. You will change your mind then." >=20 > ;-) Many of those tearing their hair and screaming "I want to quit!!" have no idea that C-x C-c will soothe the soul :-) Still less the locution "C-x C-c" [In all fairness Menu =E2=86=92 File =E2=86=92 Quit helps]