On Sunday, July 26, 2015 at 4:13:17 PM UTC+5:30, Jussi Piitulainen wrote: > Rustom Mody writes: > > On Sunday, July 26, 2015 at 2:06:00 PM UTC+5:30, Marko Rauhamaa wrote: > > >> What would you like to achieve, exactly? > > > > Some attitude correction? > > With all respect, take your own advice. And use an editor that works for > you. > > > That emacs starts its tutorial showing how to use C-p and C-n for what > > everyone uses arrows is bad enough. > > It doesn't. Those keys come three screens down the tutorial (C-h t, line > 70) and are introduced as follows: > > There are several ways you can do this. You can use the arrow keys, > but it's more efficient to keep your hands in the standard position > and use the commands C-p, C-b, C-f, and C-n. These characters are > equivalent to the four arrow keys, like this: > > > That the arrow-keys are later found to work quite alright is even > > worse and speaks of a ridiculous attitude > > Notice what the tutorial actually says about the arrow keys? That it > actually says something about the arrow keys, and it says it before it > introduces the mnemonic bindings?
Ok I was wrong on that one, sorry. [Im not sure when the last time I looked and I didnt find it] Doesn't change the fact that there are dozens of obsoleteisms For the old user they are mostly irrelevant For the new they steepen the learning curve with trivia. Funny thing is I said much the same on the emacs list just a few weeks ago: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2015-05/msg00230.html And nobody pointed out what you are Marko just did [Unless I missed somethin' there as well??] -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
