From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: ndame Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: "Why is emacs so square?" Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2020 19:22:39 +0000 Message-ID: References: <83a730ah5y.fsf@gnu.org> <5d86c203-d23a-4dac-9b29-0a8f8d996f8d@default> Reply-To: ndame Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="71765"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Drew Adams , Eli Zaretskii , =?UTF-8?B?7KGw7ISx67mI?= , EMACS development team To: chad Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 24 21:25:25 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jS3wy-000IYD-UV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 21:25:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50078 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jS3wx-0006ia-Qd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 15:25:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:53290) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jS3uZ-0000dO-On for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 15:22:56 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jS3uZ-0005s5-2q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 15:22:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-40130.protonmail.ch ([185.70.40.130]:13331) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jS3uV-0005mP-AM; Fri, 24 Apr 2020 15:22:51 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=protonmail.com; s=protonmail; t=1587756168; bh=rOJhADJk8RD1A2twuAIOEflJCTiiBORq+dqOm+6dd7g=; h=Date:To:From:Cc:Reply-To:Subject:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=ZzcqzIHB5npx2A00cZZiyIVKHWJFqu0t/WlhACds2rtTNpWSd5/Vw3gcrlAJZej9q yY3BP0TPe51jWTWJEVcYxYY435W9k4A+IEj4bIchKxpAHzuPNGEiriauVIK/ZAkfcu fmNCCTdULr6GSqo0GUnFgm8kPvNj69nioKwhhrQY= In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=185.70.40.130; envelope-from=ndame@protonmail.com; helo=mail-40130.protonmail.ch X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/04/24 15:22:48 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 185.70.40.130 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:247725 Archived-At: > Several years ago, someone put together "A guided tour of Emacs": > > =C2=A0=C2=A0https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/ > Also, it's much more pleasant looking than the built-in tutorial which is plain text. I wonder why the tutorial looks so barebones. Why doesn't it use colors, fonts, formatting? There should be some tutorial-presentation-mode which is turned on in the tutorial buffer by default and spices up it a bit by adding text properties.