Some entity, AKA Twisted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
wrote this mindboggling stuff:
(selectively-snipped-or-not-p)
> On Jun 21, 12:03 pm, Robert Uhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Twisted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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?!
What's your problem ?
Ofcourse a mere program-consumer would not look what was being
installed on his/her system in the first place ...
So after some trivial perusing what was installed and where :
WOW Look, MA ! .... it's all there!
lpr /usr/local/share/emacs/21.3/etc/refcard.ps
or your install-dir........^ ^
or your version.............................^
But then again buying the GNU-book from 'O Reilly would have solved it
in the utmost nicest possible of ways anyway.
Buying or printing the GNU-Emacs Reference Manual should do
quit a memorable job also.
But then again there allways will be people that cannot find their way to
the outhouse even when it stinks a mile a minute.
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