From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Spiro Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: evangelizing Emacs with a graphical tutorial (was: minor sugg...splash screen) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:38:08 -0500 Message-ID: <87ejpc3ilr.fsf@localhost.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1170153772 1751 80.91.229.12 (30 Jan 2007 10:42:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:42:52 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 30 11:42:35 2007 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 1HBqOI-0007CI-31 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:39:06 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HBqOH-0000dD-Ef for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:39:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HBqNY-0000d8-BH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:38:20 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HBqNV-0000ct-54 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:38:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HBqNU-0000cq-At for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:38:16 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1HBqNT-0007Ic-JJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:38:15 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1HBqNL-0004mJ-BZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:38:07 +0100 Original-Received: from cpe0004e2d9f884-cm0013718690da.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com ([74.102.92.157]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:38:07 +0100 Original-Received: from jasonspiro4+news by cpe0004e2d9f884-cm0013718690da.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 30 Jan 2007 11:38:07 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cpe0004e2d9f884-cm0013718690da.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:D+m2t+PfynKwONzPk7A1Q6UjhtU= X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:65626 Archived-At: "Drew Adams" wrote: > FWIW, here are some minor suggestions for the splash screen. [snip] I agree wholeheartedly with your suggestions. I have one more: We should provide a clickable link to a graphical tutorial on the Emacs splash screen. http://stuff.mit.edu/iap/emacs/emacs-slides-1.pdf seems to be a good one. It quickly covers the basics such as how to move the cursor. Then it gets to the useful stuff, such as the kill ring, isearch, etc. I took a show of hands at my school's LUG meeting today, and only 10% of the students used Emacs. Nowadays, too many people use non-Free IDEs. Is there any better way to show people the power of Emacs than a graphical tutorial? If I submit a patch to implement this link, will it be accepted?