From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: I wrote a mini manual for Emacs Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 15:27:59 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1402947026 30228 80.91.229.3 (16 Jun 2014 19:30:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 19:30:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 16 21:30:19 2014 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 1Wwcbh-0002UJ-Sw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Jun 2014 21:30:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46064 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Wwcbh-0003sh-CQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Jun 2014 15:30:17 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!barmar.motzarella.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="2be9e9f5dd9af768b8861af71b85fc28"; logging-data="5492"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19JJ+jNuQIn/XHfCKykNbfX" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:o/8m7MGOw5yIWs3czmcaCjDasY8= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:206016 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:98287 Archived-At: In article , MBR wrote: > So, it wouldn't hurt to emphasize at the beginning of your Mini Manual > that Emacs should not be thought of as an editor. It is a software > development environment with powerful text editing capabilities. And > it's much more than even that! There's a section at the end that discusses this. It's not clear that it needs to be emphasized at the beginning, before motivating it with an explanation of how to use Emacs in the first place. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***