The Modernization of Emacs: terminology buffer and keybinding

[David Kastrup]

Twisted <twisted0n3 at gmail.com> writes:

> On Jun 20, 5:22 pm, Matthias Buelow <m... at incubus.de> wrote:
>> Twisted wrote:
>> > 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.
>>
>> Ah, yes.. we live in a time where no-one seems to have the patience to
>> read documentation anymore. Maybe that's why there is such a scarcity of
>> good documentation with many "modern" software packages.
>
> Emacs does have documentation. The problem is you have to already
> know a load of emacs navigation oddities^Wkeyboard commands to get
> to and use it.

Menus and toolbars exist.

> Also, basic tasks should not require consulting the documentation,
> unless the application genre is new to the user.

And they don't.

Really, what is the last version of Emacs you actually tried?

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum