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


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Why does the tutorial talk about C-n/C-p etc?
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 08:51:15 +0200

> From: address@hidden (Phillip Lord)
> Cc: address@hidden,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 22:00:18 +0000
> 
> > Isn't that a chicken-and-egg problem?  How can you have a tutorial
> > that depends on enough knowledge needed to install ELPA packages?
> 
> No, it's fine. The idea is that the basic tutorial (part of Emacs
> tarball) runs up to the point of installing an ELPA package. That ELPA
> package in the first instance will just be something that says "well
> done". In the second instance, the ELPA package can do something
> funkier, but one step at a time.

So I guess the issue boils down to where are you drawing the line
between the two parts.  Although it feels strange to have a tutorial
divided in two, with the need to install an ELPA package in the
middle.  But that's me.



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