On 2013-06-20, Derek Martin <inva...@pizzashack.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 09:51:13AM -0500, Dale A. Raby wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 08:35:25AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
>> > I really don't need to be told RTFM. I am 80 yrs old.
>> > I forget things.
>
> [I think people should take note: this comment clearly suggests that
> Paul, like many people, has had negative experiences asking relatively
> simple questions on mailing lists like this one, if not this very one.]
>
>> I am 56 and also forget things... that's maybe what manuals are for? ;)
>> I normally just start Googling and usually find an answer somewhere.
>> List requests work though.
>
> The problem with the RTFM answer is that TFM is (in many cases, and
> certainly in the mutt or emacs cases) rather long, and if you don't
> already know exactly what you're looking for, finding that one thing
> you need can take hours. Searching (your manual or google) is only as
> good as your ability to guess the right keywords,
And with emacs (the subject of the OP's question), I find this to
often be precisely the problem. The only way to look up the answer is
to already know how the answer is spelled. For this particular
question, googling "emacs reformat paragraph command" gets you the
answer in the summary shown for the first hit -- but that's only
because I knew what phrase to google... :)
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