> > I don't think this is is going to be useful
for newbies. They won't
> > learn these commands.
>
> Reason? Why not useful? Why not learnable?
>
> Because there are limits to how much a person can
learn. Newbies to
> Emacs are overloaded already. They see lots of
commands and learn
> only a few of them. Offering them one more thing to
learn won't do
> any good -- they can't learn MORE.
Knowledge is not strictly quantitative: just a bin of beans
with a fixed
capacity.
Learning these can mean not needing to learn some other
things right away.
Learning `C-h c' for `describe-command' is more useful to a
newbie than
learning `C-h c' for `describe-key-briefly'. (And it's a
better mnemonic.)
Newbies need `describe-option' more than
`describe-variable', so they should
learn it first (as `C-h o'). When they later delve more into
Emacs and Lisp,
they can learn `C-h v' (if there is still room in the ol'
bin for one more
bean).
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