Twisted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Jun 20, 5:22 pm, Matthias Buelow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
