From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs learning curve Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:36:46 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <10954D02-E217-49F3-8824-757DA34074AB@gmail.com> <83zkxzakr0.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278759682 19349 80.91.229.12 (10 Jul 2010 11:01:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:01:22 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 10 13:01:21 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1OXXo9-0000zd-2d for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:01:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37184 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OXXo8-0002fN-DJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 07:01:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=54994 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OXXo1-0002fI-DK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 07:01:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OXXo0-0000iO-9y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 07:01:13 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:50012) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OXXo0-0000i8-4L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 07:01:12 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OXXmt-0000Qv-SS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:01:03 +0200 Original-Received: from 94.21.170.60 ([94.21.170.60]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:00:03 +0200 Original-Received: from levelhalom by 94.21.170.60 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:00:03 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 94.21.170.60 (Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; U; en) Presto/2.6.30 Version/10.60) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:126985 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii gnu.org> writes: > > Doesn't the manual help discovering what Emacs can do? Why do you > need to search the Internet when you have most of the stuff right > under your fingertips? > Using established terminology would help here. Is there a compelling reason to still use yank/kill, instead of copy/cut/paste? Why do we call the cursor the point? And so on. These relics of old terminology should be updated to the accepted modern variants to make the documentation is more accessible for emacs newbies.