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On Sat, 18 May 2002, Andreas Fuchs wrote:

> Hm, I might have pondered this before (not here), but what about
> splitting the tutorial up in two parts? One for users new to emacs (but
> who can edit files already, maybe used vi before), and one for users who
> are new to editing with emacs (who have used pico or notepad before).

Personally, I don't like splitting documents.  Two documents are harder 
to find than one.

Instead of splitting, we could simply tell near the beginning something 
like ``If you are familiar with the basics of a text editor, we suggest 
to skip to section 7''.