Re: Can anybody tell me how to send HTML-format mail in gnus

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Ted Zlatanov wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:49:21 +0200 "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> wrote: 
>
> > > I'm saying exactly what I said: Emacs has always been aimed at people
> > > who can read a manual.  That may, to you, imply "tech geek" but I think
>
> LB> I think that may be true, but please notice that even if this is true
> LB> Emacs should be as easy to learn as possible - without loosing power
> LB> of course.
>
> I agree, but I'm saying you have to learn Emacs with a manual and then
> it's easy.  You can't (easily) do it by exploring.  The user interface
> is not discoverable or familiar to new users, which is what people
> usually mean by "easy to learn."

I believe that learning by doing is often more effective, especially 
since "doing" is what you need with Emacs. Familiarity is perhaps where 
this begins? Or curiousness?

But I think you must be able to start easily to take advantage of 
learning by doing in the beginning.

> This is the big barrier all effective
> Emacs users have faced and surmounted by digging into documentation,
> books, tutorials, etc.
>
> Ted