Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?

[Filipp Gunbin]

On 10/03/2016 15:07 +0000, Phillip Lord wrote:

>   L235: If you are using a graphical display, such as X or MS-Windows,
>   there should be a tall rectangular area called a scroll bar on one
>   side of the Emacs window.
>
> If you are using a graphical display? I mean, of course, you are using a
> graphical display?

What's wrong with this?  A user may be in text console.

> The tutorial is not wrong, nor is it missing anything. It's just
> didactically from a different time, and I am sure it's putting many
> people off.

It's a tutorial for simple editing.  Preserving history sometimes can be
valuable.  Probably most people wanting to use Emacs already know that
it comes from long ago.

Filipp