From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chong Yidong Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Please add a Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:15:47 -0500 Message-ID: <87wsfjtl0s.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> References: <87ejpc3ilr.fsf@localhost.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <878wwen09k.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1225822566 8353 80.91.229.12 (4 Nov 2008 18:16:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 18:16:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jason Spiro Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 04 19:17:05 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1KxQSb-0001Ve-Gg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:17:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50122 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KxQRU-0000r3-Bl for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:15:52 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KxQRI-0000f3-6A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:15:40 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KxQRG-0000d8-C7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:15:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45531 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KxQRG-0000d0-62 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:15:38 -0500 Original-Received: from cyd.mit.edu ([18.115.2.24]:38430) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KxQRG-0002WD-Bd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:15:38 -0500 Original-Received: by cyd.mit.edu (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 09DB857E08F; Tue, 4 Nov 2008 13:15:47 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Jason Spiro's message of "Tue, 4 Nov 2008 02:47:36 +0000 (UTC)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:105351 Archived-At: Jason Spiro writes: > Months ago, on 2008-Jul-13, Juri Linkov jurta.org> wrote: >> > Over a year ago (2007-01-30) Eli Zaretskii gnu.org> wrote: > [snip] >> > 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, I think it would be better to also have a link on the Help menu. > That's because I bet some users look only on the Help menu, and not > also on the splash screen, for help. > > All: what do you think? It's a little counter-intuitive for menu items to open hyperlinks, at least in my experience.