Re: [External] : Re: [PATCH] Package Installation in Tutorial

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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  > I'd suggest that teaching basic customization
  > should be more useful/important than teaching
  > how to install an external package.  But I
  > don't claim to be right about that suggestion.

I tend to think that neither one is important enough to
include in the tutorial.  I think that neither operation
is part of what people need to know, when they are at
the very basic level that the tutorial aims to teach.

But I'm not going to argue about it.

  > That sounds like another fine addition to make.  Maybe someone could
  > write up 15-20 lines or so about how to use `M-x customize'?

To teach this to the sort of people that need the tutorial
calls for walking the reader through an example.  That would require
a hundred lines, or maybe 200.


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