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Re: guided tour suggestions
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David Kastrup |
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Re: guided tour suggestions |
Date: |
Wed, 27 Jun 2007 07:45:07 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Phil Sung <address@hidden> writes:
> Previous suggestions which were made:
>
> * Mention help features earlier
>
> I now mention the manual close to the beginning, and function documentation
> right after the section on editing commands.
>
> * Emphasize Emacs as a coding environment
>
> There are now screenshots of GDB, compile, grep, and shell, and further
> information about what programming major modes can do.
>
> Again, the draft is at:
> <http://stuff.mit.edu/iap/emacs/emacs-guided-tour-1.html>
>
> If no one objects, I will ask the webmasters to replace the version
> on gnu.org with this soon.
I just took a look at it: Ugh! This is supposed to _advertise_ Emacs,
and I have enough of a fight convincing people that Emacs has made the
step into the twenty-first century. The guided tour is completely
unsuitable for that. It shows an Emacs a) compiled without a modern
toolkit (Gtk+, Windows or Mac) b) without menus c) without toolbars d)
without scrollbars (for heaven's sake!) e) without font diversity.
The only thing hinting at fonts is a man-page (not info or even
woman-page!) with some bold headings, and then those headings have
the identical crowded monospace size as the rest. f) without file
dialogs g) without tooltips h) without any non-ASCII character
The only exception to this theme is a screenshot of a Tetris game,
quite irrelevant.
Would it be possible to make the screenshots with emacs -Q so that
people see what they get out of the box instead of after an
Emacs-18-tty-happy user has finished refurbishing Emacs 22 to a
Zen-like emptiness?
It is, after all, Emacs 22 we are trying to sell to the unwashed
masses.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Re: guided tour suggestions, Chong Yidong, 2007/06/02
- Re: guided tour suggestions, David Kastrup, 2007/06/02
- RE: guided tour suggestions, Drew Adams, 2007/06/02
- Re: guided tour suggestions, Phil Sung, 2007/06/11
- RE: guided tour suggestions, Drew Adams, 2007/06/11
- Re: guided tour suggestions, Phil Sung, 2007/06/28
- Re: guided tour suggestions, David Kastrup, 2007/06/28
- Re: guided tour suggestions, David House, 2007/06/28
- Re: guided tour suggestions, David Kastrup, 2007/06/28
- Re: guided tour suggestions, Nick Roberts, 2007/06/28
- Re: guided tour suggestions, David Kastrup, 2007/06/28
- Re: guided tour suggestions, Juri Linkov, 2007/06/29
- Re: guided tour suggestions, Nick Roberts, 2007/06/29