From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
To: Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs@gmail.com>
Cc: George Mauer <gmauer@gmail.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: A dream?
Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2023 09:30:34 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZDzniiH6gptN5qGh@protected.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADs++6iCnoPCOZgDo=g9n6WxSwrg-4DpKCxi1=oBi3jCTgfgyA@mail.gmail.com>
* Eduardo Ochs <eduardoochs@gmail.com> [2023-04-16 01:45]:
> do you have a page in https://gnu.support/ explaining in detail how
> you teach Emacs to beginners? It would be nice to have something like
> that...
I just tell them to do Emacs Tutorial. There is no need for page when
it is built-in.
I tell them, open Emacs and do the tutorial, then let me know. Later
we do not talk much, we just do the work.
> Btw, I've taught Emacs to beginners many times, but as "Emacs-the-
> Lisp-environment", not as "Emacs-the-editor"... in some cases, like in
> LaTeX workshops, lots of students who had never used Emacs before were
> happily writing their own one-line elisp hyperlinks and defuns after
> just one hour, but in some other cases my approach failed miserably...
Answer is simple:
(info "(eintr) Top")
You could use that as curriculum for the workshop.
--
Jean
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-04-17 6:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-04-03 13:52 A dream? Marko Schuetz-Schmuck
2023-04-03 14:27 ` Rob Sargent
2023-04-03 15:11 ` indieterminacy
2023-04-03 15:16 ` George Mauer
2023-04-15 2:16 ` Jean Louis
2023-04-15 19:36 ` Christopher Dimech
2023-04-15 22:33 ` Dr. Arne Babenhauserheide
2023-04-15 23:10 ` Christopher Dimech
2023-04-17 6:26 ` Jean Louis
2023-04-15 22:43 ` Eduardo Ochs
2023-04-17 6:30 ` Jean Louis [this message]
2023-04-03 15:22 ` Martin Steffen
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2023-04-04 10:12 Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
2023-04-18 5:35 Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez
2023-04-18 12:40 ` Adolfo De Unanue
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