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Author: xahlee
Date: Jun 10, 2008 17:55

Emacs wiki Problems

Xah Lee, 2008-06-10

Some personal experiences on tutorials and documentations related to
emacs.

A Html version with formatting and links is at:
http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_wiki_problem.html

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Emacs Tutorial Experiences

i started to use emacs in 1998. Was a full time user and beta tester
for BBEdit for several years before that.

The first tutorial i read is the bundled tutorial (C-h t, M-x help-
with-tutorial).

This tutorial is the way to get you started with emacs from the ground
up. It in written in 1980's mindset, gets you started to learn all the
emacs ways and terminologies. It is not a practicality oriented one
though.

Once you've read the bundled tutorial, you'll know about info (C-h i)
and how to use its navigation shortcuts, which you can read the whole
one-thousand pages of emacs manual. The emacs manual is a bit...
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Re: emacs wiki problem         


Author: Karsten Heymann
Date: Jun 11, 2008 06:00

Hi,

I usually don't comment on these texts, but there's one point I
strongy disagree:

"xahlee@gmail.com" gmail.com> writes:
> Also, i'd think the wiki's software should adopt MediaWiki, [...]

MediaWiki is absolutely great for collecting large text-centric
amounts of text. But for technical documentations and the like,
dokuwiki (http://wiki.splitbrain.org/wiki:dokuwiki) has numerous
advantages. So if there ever should be a change in emacswiki's
software, please at least consider it.

Yours
Karsten
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