From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: tip of the day?
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 15:22:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1G0kHq-0001u7-AF@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7dbe73ed0607111454l2fd20523q358b3a2743461fb6@mail.gmail.com> (mathias.dahl@gmail.com)
I like the idea. Now and then I stumble upon things I did not know
existed in Emacs, often while looking for something completely
different. Just opening up a random manual page could prove to be
quite useful.
The suggestion, as I understood it, was to present randomly selected
tips. I took this to mean short hints that people would write for
this specific purpose. Randomly selecting a spot in the manual would
be a totally different feature. If some people find that useful, I
have nothing against it, but please don't consider the two ideas
interchangeable.
Tips would be good for helping beginners become intermediate users.
Randomly selecting parts of the manual could be interesting for more
knowledgeable users, but would not help beginners.
I think the tips would be more useful than the random manual text
presenter. But we could have both.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-12 19:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-11 15:25 tip of the day? Drew Adams
2006-07-11 19:24 ` Andreas Roehler
2006-07-11 21:26 ` Drew Adams
2006-07-11 21:54 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-07-12 2:19 ` Miles Bader
2006-07-12 9:25 ` Mathias Dahl
2006-07-12 19:22 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2006-07-12 21:37 ` Drew Adams
2006-07-18 13:46 ` David Hansen
2006-07-18 15:21 ` Drew Adams
2006-07-28 17:51 ` Drew Adams
2006-07-12 15:36 ` Richard Stallman
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