From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: notbob Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Issues with emacs Date: 24 Jun 2012 14:03:07 GMT Message-ID: References: <87bokbb4zw.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340546716 22930 80.91.229.3 (24 Jun 2012 14:05:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 14:05:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 24 16:05:16 2012 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 1SinRC-0008CG-OC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 16:05:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51271 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SinRC-0002fb-Kv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 10:05:14 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-X-Trace: individual.net QUDiQ12TzVtdYYl+AoJmBw6ji+5WsWdc5AtZ9j9VK1qBHwYf+aEsWoveadiB2mg6eS Cancel-Lock: sha1:CBD3aBSFwfRDhs1/xkFX29wvEqo= User-Agent: slrn/0.9.9p1 (Linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:193025 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:85421 Archived-At: On 2012-06-24, Deniz Dogan wrote: > On 2012-06-24 14:17,, notbob wrote: > Wouldn't it be very useful to have a QUICKSTART or HOWTO shipped with > Emacs? Something really short and concise and containing something like > this: > > Notation: > > * C- means Control > * M- means Meta (or Alt if you don't have a Meta key) > * C-M- means Control and Meta It already exists. It's called the emacs tutorial: C-h t ...and is presented every time you start general emacs. IOW, not in dired or an existing file. nb -- vi --the heart of evil! Support labeling GMOs