The Modernization of Emacs: terminology buffer and keybinding

[Twisted]

On Jun 21, 12:03 pm, Robert Uhl <eadmun... at NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:
> Twisted <twisted... at gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> Emacs is amazingly beginner-friendly for the power and flexibility it
> >> provides. [snip]
>
> > That's a joke, right? I tried it a time or two. Every time it was
> > rapidly apparent that doing anything non-trivial would require
> > consulting a cheat sheet. The printed-out kind, since navigating to
> > the help and back without already having the help displayed and open
> > to the command reference was also non-trivial.
>
> C-h i, C-x b RET is non-trivial?!?

Let's change that so that you see it the way most human beings see it:

> > navigating to
> > the help and back without already having the help displayed and open
> > to the command reference was also non-trivial.

> Erh h, dhsd f hHE is non-trivial?

I'm sorry. I don't speak Chinese.

I trust I've made my point. Not only does it insist you learn a whole
other language (though I'm guessing it's not actually Chinese --
Greek, maybe), even when you know that's a bunch of keystrokes and
even what they are...

HOW IN THE BLOODY HELL IS IT SUPPOSED TO OCCUR TO SOMEONE TO ENTER
THEM, GIVEN THAT THEY HAVE TO DO SO TO REACH THE HELP THAT WOULD TELL
THEM THOSE ARE THE KEYS TO REACH THE HELP?!

I suppose it just pops in there by divine inspiration? Or it's
supposed to be self-evident to anyone who has TRUE wisdom? Or maybe
it's just expected that you be mentored by an expert, who would know
that arcane incantation and could pass it on to a new student. Well
I've got news for you buddy -- there's no such thing as divine
inspiration, it's not self-evident, and most people can't afford (if
they could find) a tutor just to learn how to use A TEXT EDITOR.

Of course, Notepad is so easy to use it doesn't even need help,
despite which it's readily available. In case you forgot the bog-
standard (and therefore it IS self-evident) "F1" there's even a "Help"
menu in plain view as soon as you open a Notepad.

This is the lowly Notepad, which I'll freely admit is the rusty
bicycle of text editors, and it's much easier to use (including the
help) than the supposed Mercedes-Benz of editors.

[remainder snipped, apparently describing some piece of software that
presents you automatically with an emacs tutorial if you start emacs
while it's running. I've seen emacs a few times in my day but never
whatever unnamed piece of software is being referred to here...but it
does occur to me that a context-sensitive auto-popup cheat sheet tool
would be useful on the typical unix system!]