From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: despen@verizon.net Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Failing to see the allure of Emacs Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 21:27:39 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: <877hp5e2op.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87pr2u7ie3.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <9uudnY0F7J_qFjfWnZ2dnUVZ8oCdnZ2d@posted.visi> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1272998693 9356 80.91.229.12 (4 May 2010 18:44:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 18:44:53 +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 04 20:44:52 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1O9N6y-0006eJ-A0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 20:44:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:60415 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1O9N6x-0004bA-Oo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 May 2010 14:44:51 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin2!goblin.stu.neva.ru!feeder.erje.net!feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 18 Injection-Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 01:27:40 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: feeder.eternal-september.org; logging-data="26967"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/lKpupCKhM0fyGiA/YCTTk6GkUUbDZ4uc=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZlVv/2UbBr4GTyCfzHnsAvbnghM= sha1:E3f4TakKN5aj66sGpVrJJ10w2Mk= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177564 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73052 Archived-At: "akaiser@visi.com" writes: > Got the idea? No, not even close. > I can read source code and I do; but there's a lot of source code, and > most of it is unrewarding reading. No one so far has suggested that you read the source code. > I can use info, but I don't like > it. Well, that explains it. The emacs documentation is well organized, complete and easy to use. Guess where it is?