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Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly
From: |
Steinar Børmer |
Subject: |
Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly |
Date: |
Sun, 20 Mar 2005 12:51:40 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/22.0.50 (berkeley-unix) |
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
| > From: PT <mailshield.gg@mailnull.com>
| > Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 15:52:33 +0100
|
| > At least that's what the newbies tell me. ("Emacs? You have to know
| > a lot of long key combinations to use it. Too complicated.")
|
| Whoever says that should be pointed to the menus. I'd expect newbies
| to know that alredy, and use the menus (and most modern computer users
| are menu-bar kind of people anyway).
In fact, on startup GNU Emacs says:
"You can do basic editing with the menu bar and scroll bar using the
mouse".
Clearly visible as line two of the splash screen. If you miss that,
then you're not trying very hard to learn your new tool.
--
SB
- Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly, (continued)
- Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly, PT, 2005/03/19
- Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly, Alan Mackenzie, 2005/03/20
- Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/03/19
- Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly, Pascal Bourguignon, 2005/03/19
- Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly, Steinar Børmer, 2005/03/20
- Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly, Floyd L. Davidson, 2005/03/20
- Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/03/19
- Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly, Shawn Betts, 2005/03/19
- Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly, Pascal Bourguignon, 2005/03/19
- Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly, David Kastrup, 2005/03/19
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- Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly,
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- Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly, ken, 2005/03/20
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- Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly, Floyd L. Davidson, 2005/03/20
- Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly, Sean Richards, 2005/03/21
- Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly, Floyd L. Davidson, 2005/03/21
- Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly, Sean Richards, 2005/03/22
- Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly, Pascal Bourguignon, 2005/03/19
- Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly, Gian Uberto Lauri, 2005/03/19
- Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/03/19
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- Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly, Pascal Bourguignon, 2005/03/19
- Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly, Eli Zaretskii, 2005/03/19