in other editors, and you can give commands with the menu bar and tool
bar, and scroll with the scroll bar. But if you keep on editing that
way, you won't get the benefits of Emacs. Therefore, this manual
-documents primarily how to edit with the keyboard. You can practice
-using the keyboard by using the shell command @samp{emacs -nw} to
-start Emacs.
+documents primarily how to edit with the keyboard. You can force
+yourself to practice using the keyboard by using the shell command
+@samp{emacs -nw} to start Emacs, so that the mouse won't work.
Emacs uses an extension of the @acronym{ASCII} character set for
keyboard input; it also accepts non-character input events including