From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Gather a list of confusions beginner tend to have Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:13:50 -0400 Message-ID: References: <875z8ortot.fsf@gkayaalp.com> <83ft7rkp9e.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15703"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: self@gkayaalp.com, casouri@gmail.com, praharsharmm@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 11 06:14:41 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kGaSO-0003yA-Kv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 11 Sep 2020 06:14:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33938 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kGaSN-0000rm-Lt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:14:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38880) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kGaRh-00080G-7B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:13:57 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:46390) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kGaRf-00011q-SI; Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:13:56 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kGaRa-00042u-NS; Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:13:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83ft7rkp9e.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 09 Sep 2020 17:18:05 +0300) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:255076 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > The reason we didn't put these on the splash screen is because we have > a menu bar, where everyone can find these popular commands without the > need to read any instructions. Who will not know nowadays that to > open a file, one need to click on "File" and look in the menu that > drops down from that? That argument seems quite persuasive, but it doesn't seem to apply to everyone. Someone (was it self@gkayaalp.com?) wrote about expecting O to visit a file; that is what I responded to. Whoever I responded to, if you are reading this,, could you tell us why the existence of the menu did not make it obvious how to visit a file? -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)