Dear Eduardo: I think that eev is a great software and that you are very prolific worker. But I have had several problems to follow your tutorials. Perhaps it has been my laziness to read and analyze the way eev is constructed or maybe it is my lack of enough intelligence required to understand the workings of eev. (I was going to write "workings of your software" instead of "workings of eev". But I feel that eev is mine too!)
I have tryed several times to explain the problems that I have had. You have tryed to help me patiently and have put a lot of effort and love into following up with my progress. Thank you very much for what you have contributed in my journey into eev (and of others which have asked for help). Nevertheless, I must say that you have dismissed my situation and you have tryed to help me by solving my problem the way that you would solve your problems. But I need a little change in strategy to understand better. Please let me explain the process which I think that I am going through when I am learning eev. If you are not willing to help me the way that I feel that would help me, I will not blame you. Rather, I feel that I am already a better person from the encounters which I have had with you. If you would go a little slower, it would help me a lot. When you explain, you go ahead and cover many things which are not my current problem. That makes me get lost about which are the steps I have to take. I do not have the criteria to know which of the informations that you provide is the one to use at that moment. So I get paralyzed and just abandon. (Of course that trying anything would be the right course. But it is not my normal reaction.) I am very stubborn. So I come back motivated by my belief that eev uses the correct policy for making machines: the most hackable construction, so that the user is not a slave to the machine, but its master! The current problem that I have could serve as an example. El 2022-12-19 23:51, Eduardo Ochs escribió: > 1. Run this to download or update the subtitles for a certain video: > > (find-psne-eevvideo-links "2021-org-for-non-users" ".vtt") When I evaluated this hyperlink, a new buffer popped up as I have been accustomed to. That is not complicated. But that buffer contains a lot of information. There are two keybinding which I have learned that I have to employ in these situations, F8 or M-e. So when I use either of these keybindings, something will happen. I do not understand exactly what happens. (Lately I understand more. But I do not follow the direction that I need, it is just a flow.) I have to do that because I do not really know what to do. Sometimes I have to kill some of those buffers with M-k: when I either do not understand what has happened and hope that the commands do what I needed to meet a precondition for what I wanted (for example download a video into $S in order for it to be played or a document in order for eev's versions of find-file to open it) or when I have read all the document which is in the new buffer. It is not clear what is to be read for the current situation or which part of the video is relevant and where to stop. So my recommendation for the tutorials is to just mention the basics for the issue at the time and have an area to go for more information. The fact that those two informations (specific and extense) are separate would be very helpful to avoid getting lost in the beautiful jungle of completeness. If there is a video, have information of what to do in a summary. Then show all the information as optional additional resources. If there is a tutorial, mention a summary of what to do. Then describe the steps in detail. (I have seen this process in some tutorial whare you have employed this process.) If there is a question, just mention the next step, not the whole process. Be sure to ask what is the current situation. Then you can learn what to recommend. It is great to have the whole library of information. But it is better for a newbie that there is an obvious route to take as the first baby steps. Later, the newbie will become an expert which will go directly to the card catalogue, remember those? :-D I used to run away from those! But I do think that they are useful when you know how they work. (Yes, I am that old.)