From: "Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
To: "Jason Spiro" <jasonspiro4@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Please add a "Guided Tour" menu command
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 23:07:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e01d8a50811041407teaef325s336f29abed2cca34@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <loom.20081104T220048-802@post.gmane.org>
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 11:03 PM, Jason Spiro <jasonspiro4@gmail.com> wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> wrote:
>> That sounds like a lot of trouble. Why is this so much better than
>> having a text document?
>
> I think it was already explained why the tour is better than the tutorial.
Isn't it quite hard to compare two things with different purposes
(like Drew explained) in the dimension of "better"?
> The advantages of the screenshots is that a screenshot is worth a thousand
> words. It shows an Emacs mode in action.
And it is in colors ;-)
Screenshots are very good to get a quick overview so they fit very
nicely in the tour.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-04 22:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-27 19:37 minor suggestions for splash screen Drew Adams
2007-01-30 10:38 ` evangelizing Emacs with a graphical tutorial (was: minor sugg...splash screen) Jason Spiro
2007-01-30 11:06 ` evangelizing Emacs with a graphical tutorial David Kastrup
2007-01-30 11:23 ` Nic James Ferrier
2007-01-31 13:28 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-01-30 11:32 ` Jason Spiro
2007-01-31 4:00 ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-31 8:18 ` Chris Moore
2007-01-30 20:26 ` evangelizing Emacs with a graphical tutorial (was: minor sugg...splash screen) Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-30 20:49 ` Jason Spiro
2008-06-30 15:56 ` Please add a "Guided Tour" menu command (was: Re: evangelizing Emacs with a graphical tutorial) Jason Spiro
2008-07-06 21:57 ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-12 22:21 ` evangelizing Emacs with a graphical tutorial Juri Linkov
2008-07-13 5:30 ` Chong Yidong
2008-07-13 21:33 ` Juri Linkov
2008-07-13 7:02 ` David Kastrup
2008-07-13 21:29 ` Juri Linkov
2008-11-04 2:47 ` Please add a Jason Spiro
2008-11-04 18:15 ` Chong Yidong
2008-11-04 19:05 ` Drew Adams
2008-11-04 19:42 ` Please add a "Guided Tour" menu command (was: Re: evangelizing Emacs with a graphical tutorial) Jason Spiro
2008-11-04 20:09 ` Please add a "Guided Tour" menu command Juri Linkov
2008-11-04 20:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-04 21:27 ` Juri Linkov
2008-11-04 21:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-04 22:03 ` Jason Spiro
2008-11-04 22:07 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2008-11-04 22:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-04 21:38 ` Jason Spiro
2008-11-04 22:09 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-11-04 22:37 ` Juri Linkov
2008-11-04 23:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-05 4:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-04 20:46 ` Jason Spiro
2008-11-04 21:19 ` Juri Linkov
2008-11-04 21:37 ` Jason Spiro
2008-11-04 21:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-04 21:34 ` Jason Spiro
2008-11-04 21:44 ` Drew Adams
2008-11-04 22:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-04 21:25 ` Drew Adams
2008-11-04 21:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-04 21:44 ` Drew Adams
2008-11-04 22:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2008-11-04 22:30 ` Drew Adams
2008-11-04 22:04 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-11-04 23:10 ` Jason Spiro
2008-11-04 23:56 ` Davis Herring
2008-11-05 0:11 ` Drew Adams
2008-11-05 0:06 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-11-04 23:15 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-04 23:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-04 18:23 ` Please add a Drew Adams
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