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From: bph@buengc.BU.EDU (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.editors
Subject: Re: vi vs. emacs
Message-ID: <700@buengc.BU.EDU>
Date: 4 Aug 88 02:43:20 GMT
References: <16697@brl-adm.ARPA> <517@uva.UUCP> <661@buengc.BU.EDU> <2679@mipos3.intel.com>
Reply-To: bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton)
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In article <2679@mipos3.intel.com> nate@mipos3.intel.com (Nate Hess) writes:
>In article <661@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.bu.edu (Blair P. Houghton) writes:
>>I once went into the info mode of Emacs, saw the menu of commands [...]
>
>Did you try going into the on-line tutorial?  (C-h t)
>

Yeah, it was a worse abomination.  Someone had left the write-protect off
the original version, and I couldn't even read half the instructions.

Plus, if I'm looking for something to quickly alleviate a lapse
of function, I don't want to have to go on a major hunt through
the tutorial.

				--Blair
				  "No help is better than Emacs 'help.'"