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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "Phil Sung" <psung@MIT.EDU>, "Chong Yidong" <cyd@MIT.EDU>
Cc: David House <dmhouse@gmail.com>,
	mathias.dahl@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: guided tour suggestions
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 13:19:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <EIENLHALHGIMHGDOLMIMEEFJDCAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vedus1kq.fsf@phil.mit.edu>

> The in-progress version is here:
> http://stuff.mit.edu/iap/emacs/emacs-guided-tour-1.html

Much better! Thanks.

I suspect that others will disagree, but I'd suggest mentioning something
about the mouse in the Region section. I'd also suggest dropping mention of
M-@ and M-h (C-x h is important, however, and we should mention that this is
essentially "Select All" (often C-a)).

Similarly, I wouldn't bother with all of the kill flavors: kill N lines,
unless this is to be used as an illustration of C-u (in which case it
doesn't belong in the Killing text section). I wouldn't mention M-k or M-z.
I wouldn't mention so many key bindings, in general. I wouldn't mention
anything about movement or selection of sentences and paragraphs.

I agree 100%, BTW, that the aim here is not to teach how to use Emacs but to
show a little of what's available. That's why key bindings are not so
important to describe. (In fact, we could even just stick to menu items.) If
this were more about teaching use, then I'd say we need to mention C-x C-s
and C-x C-w (and...).

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-11 20:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-03 18:03 guided tour suggestions Karl Berry
2007-05-03 20:34 ` Phil Sung
2007-06-02 20:52   ` Chong Yidong
2007-06-02 21:04     ` David Kastrup
2007-06-02 22:08     ` Drew Adams
2007-06-03  8:23       ` Mathias Dahl
2007-06-03 15:32       ` David House
2007-06-11 20:01     ` Phil Sung
2007-06-11 20:19       ` Drew Adams [this message]
2007-06-27  1:16         ` Phil Sung
2007-06-27  4:28           ` Drew Adams
2007-06-27  5:45           ` David Kastrup
2007-06-27  6:04             ` Nick Roberts
2007-06-27  7:37               ` David Kastrup
2007-06-28  7:02             ` Phil Sung
2007-06-28  7:20               ` David Kastrup
2007-06-28  9:54                 ` David House
2007-06-28 10:25                   ` David Kastrup
2007-08-09  7:15                 ` Phil Sung
2007-08-09  7:36                   ` David Kastrup
2007-08-13  8:09                     ` Phil Sung
2007-06-28  8:20               ` Nick Roberts
2007-06-28  8:36                 ` David Kastrup
2007-06-29 16:41               ` Juri Linkov
2007-06-30  1:16               ` Nick Roberts
2007-06-30 10:03                 ` David House
2007-07-22 10:59                   ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-05-03 22:30 ` David Koppelman
2007-05-03 22:41   ` Daniel Brockman
2007-05-04  5:09 ` Dieter Wilhelm
2007-05-04  7:32   ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-05-05 14:39 ` Randal L. Schwartz

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