Re: tip of the day?

[Andreas Roehler <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>]

Drew Adams schrieb:
> A thread on help-emacs-windows gave me this idea. I don't know if it's
> already been implemented in some way in the past. (Perhaps I need a tip of
> the day, to let me know that tip-of-the-day exists!)
>
> Why not exploit the yow/cookie mechanism or something similar to provide a
> tip-of-the-day that Emacs users can turn on? Or, just bring up the Emacs
> manual at some node as a tip of the day.
>
> In the latter case, the node could be chosen from a selected list of
> introductory nodes, perhaps organized by category (e.g. novice vs advanced,
> or by subject area), so that some planning went into deciding what to
> present, or it could just be chosen at random. Users might even configure
> whether they want a random high-level node or to follow the plan.
>
> Years ago, I used yow or cookie (I don't remember) to pop up a random haiku
> from a huge file of haikus. That's what made me think this might be one way
> to provide a tip of the day. But it would be much easier (no file to
> create), and probably better for the user (because s?he can explore from
> there), to pop up a manual node.
>
> Some applications use such a tip-of-the-day feature, turning it on by
> default, so that new users see a tip at each application startup. Usually,
> when the tip pops up, it has a check box that you can uncheck to turn it off
> so you never see it again.
>
> Depending on what you are trying to do, what the application is, and how
> good the tips are, this feature can be annoying or surprisingly useful.
> Because the Emacs manual is so good and so rich, I think this would be
> useful for Emacs. But we would need to provide an easy way to turn it off,
> because it will surely annoy some of the people some of the time.
>
>   

IMO with haikus or small sentences as from fortune it's
another thing as with the Manual.

The matter Emacs covers is so vaste, that I can't
imagine a usefull approach beside studying it along
some line.

Others may take it different. Thanks to be initiative
anyway.

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Andreas Roehler