Re: Just shoot me now (was Re: What's wrong with this fancy split?)

[Tommy Kelly <tommy.kelly@verilab.com>]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

>> 8. Google for "emacs lisp syntax table"
>
> Did you know that Emacs comes with a searchable manual?

Absolutely. I use it often. And as Reiner pointed out, the answer to my
question can in fact be figured out from the manual.

So where does that leave us? 

A user who knows about and uses the searchable manual; who has shown
willing to dive into the code and to extend his searching beyond the
manual; who in general acknowledges that one doesn't use emacs or Gnus
if what you want in your editor is a set of clicky buttons and an
eye-candy-filled GUI, IS STILL HAVING DIFFICULTY.

Either the user is thick, or the documentation is thick.

Thing is -- so let's call a spade a spade -- I so *know* I'm not thick
that I wouldn't offer that as a choice if I thought I was the problem.

It's the documentation. It's fine for you -- but you're not the
audience, or at least not the whole audience.

Again, we're in Open Source land, and Lars, you, and the rest of the
coders are just Cool Dudes to whom I'm grateful for the work you've put
into this thing. I'm not *expecting* anything. 

Look at it this way. I'm merely telling you all this to save you reading
"the code" -- being the enormous literature on psychology, learning
styles, philosophy of language, and, to a good extent, literate
programming.

But, if you prefer, see Tractatus Logic-Philosophicus. ;-)

Tommy