> Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 12:56:51 +0100 > From: "Phil Betts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Eli Zaretskii wrote on Wednesday, July 05, 2006 7:31 PM:: > > > I wish people would recommend the Emacs documentation _before_ wiki > > and the other sites. > > The OP said that he'd not yet found "good .emacs-files or tutorials". > That implied that he'd already looked.
I don't see how this implies that he looked in the user manual. > Perhaps I was wrong, but since the *first* place I'd look is in the > program's bundled documentation, I assumed he had too. I find that assumption is wrong in most cases. > In any case, AFAIR the bundled tutorial only covers the fundamentals I didn't mean the tutorial. I meant the user manual and the built-in documentation and help commands. > and the documentation doesn't include "good .emacs-files" Why not? There's a section on the init files and what things go into it. > E.g. terminology is often confusing - emacs uses > "auto-fill" where the rest of the world uses "auto-wrap". The manual has a Glossary section precisely for that need. I think we should make a point of telling newbies about its existence, to avoid terminology problems. > If you > apropos for "wrap", you'll find nothing remotely related to word- > wrapping. As in a lot of technical documentation, if you know where > to find the answer, you probably already know the answer. My crystal ball says that you either don't know about the `i' (Info-index) command, or rarely use it. That command (and the indexing in the manual) is specifically tuned to those who need to find things quickly _without_ knowing what they are looking for. I think we should advertise that feature much more than we do, because it's under-used. > Is this EmacsW32 specific documentation, or part of the main emacs > manual? The latter, of course. I hate forked efforts; my only gripe about Lennart's EmacsW32 effort is that it's ``off-Emacs'', not part of the official package.
