From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Please add a "Guided Tour" menu command (was: Re: evangelizing Emacs with a graphical tutorial) Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:57:59 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <878wwen09k.fsf@jurta.org> References: <87ejpc3ilr.fsf@localhost.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215381561 717 80.91.229.12 (6 Jul 2008 21:59:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 21:59:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jason Spiro Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 07 00:00:06 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KFcH6-00053o-Bq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55433 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KFcGD-0006jj-I6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:59:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KFcG9-0006ij-JB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:59:05 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KFcG8-0006iI-5e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:59:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38577 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KFcG7-0006iF-SH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:59:03 -0400 Original-Received: from relay02.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.197]:50850) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KFcG7-0007FJ-Mx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:59:03 -0400 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay02.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1KFcG4-000JSy-Tp; Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:59:01 +0300 In-Reply-To: (Jason Spiro's message of "Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:56:57 +0000 (UTC)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-Scanner-Signature: 068dd79c68aafbc760c35e97c5d420ed X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Trusted X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 4235s [July 6 2008] X-SpamTest-Info: {received from trusted relay: common white list} X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: white ip list X-SpamTest-Rate: 10 X-SpamTest-Status: Trusted X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: trusted X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0278], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 6.x (1) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:100398 Archived-At: > Over a year ago (2007-01-30) Eli Zaretskii gnu.org> wrote: > ... >> Please come back and revisit this issue after Emacs 22.1 is released. > > OK. I have waited, and now I'm back. :) > > ( The rest of this message is forwarded from > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emacs22/+bug/244276 ) > > Please add a command to the Help menu to show the user the Emacs guided tour. > I see two options for how it could work: > > 1. You could make the command launch the system default web browser and point > it to http://www.gnu.org/s/emacs/tour/ Thanks. This link is already added to the startup screen, so there is no more need to put it on the Help menu. -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/