Re: Intermediate tutorial shipped with Emacs

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Rasmus writes:

 > I guess it's also a question of exposing nice features such a narrowing.
 > Sort of like the "discovery" tooltip shown in some programs, typically at
 > startup.

That kind of thing treat an arbitrarily long list of topics, since it
picks one more or less at random on each invocation.  One useful tip
in the first 5 or so and the user is hooked.  A tutorial devoting the
equivalent of a half-page to a page (occasionally more) to a single
topic can't work that way, it's only going to hold the reader's
attention so long, and after that they will put it away permanently.