From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Info tutorial is out of date Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:24:35 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87r70l2xza.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153232873 30905 80.91.229.2 (18 Jul 2006 14:27:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2006 14:27:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: belanger@truman.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 18 16:27:51 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G2qVS-0007l6-DZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 16:25:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G2qVR-0008M3-P8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:25:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G2qVI-0008Lo-G9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:24:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G2qVH-0008KP-2O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:24:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G2qVG-0008KH-RJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:24:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.188] (helo=tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G2qXy-0007lF-LG; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:27:38 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([70.53.192.251]) by tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20060718142436.BYXI1747.tomts25-srv.bellnexxia.net@localhost>; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:24:36 -0400 Original-Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 20848) id CBB7F90A1; Tue, 18 Jul 2006 10:24:35 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: Miles Bader In-Reply-To: (Miles Bader's message of "Tue, 18 Jul 2006 11:03:52 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:57265 Archived-At: > It's perhaps silly for a tutorial to pretend the mouse/etc don't exist, > but basically people already know how to use them, so I think not much > really be said other than a note explaining _why_ the tutorial > concentrates on key bindings. I think it should concentrate on features instead. One of the features is its perfect support for mouse-free use. But I'm not sure it should be the first feature mentioned. Index lookup (i), manual-wide search (M-s), and linear traversal (SPC), should come before, IMO, Stefan