From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: tip of the day? Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 15:22:18 -0400 Message-ID: References: <7dbe73ed0607111454l2fd20523q358b3a2743461fb6@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1152732225 3256 80.91.229.2 (12 Jul 2006 19:23:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 19:23:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 12 21:23:43 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G0kIx-00016j-Gb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:23:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G0kIw-0008Ri-Qs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 15:23:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G0kHr-0007yR-PT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 15:22:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G0kHr-0007y8-Bc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 15:22:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G0kHr-0007y3-7s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 15:22:19 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G0kJS-0000iG-IT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 15:23:58 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1G0kHq-0001u7-AF; Wed, 12 Jul 2006 15:22:18 -0400 Original-To: "Mathias Dahl" In-reply-to: <7dbe73ed0607111454l2fd20523q358b3a2743461fb6@mail.gmail.com> (mathias.dahl@gmail.com) 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:56958 Archived-At: 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.