From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Spiro Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Please add a "Guided Tour" menu command (was: Re: evangelizing Emacs with a graphical tutorial) Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:56:57 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <87ejpc3ilr.fsf@localhost.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215380141 29127 80.91.229.12 (6 Jul 2008 21:35:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 21:35:41 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 06 23:36:26 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KFbtx-0005cU-HN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:36:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37561 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KFbt6-0004wf-6J for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:35:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KFbt1-0004uz-Bj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:35:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KFbsz-0004sA-EL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:35:10 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43484 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KFbsz-0004rs-8M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:35:09 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:37644 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KFbsz-0004Pk-5V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jul 2008 17:35:09 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KFbss-0007eN-J1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:35:03 +0000 Original-Received: from net-207.drdc-rddc.gc.ca ([128.43.207.254]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:35:02 +0000 Original-Received: from jasonspiro4 by net-207.drdc-rddc.gc.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:35:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 128.43.207.254 (Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; InfoPath.1)) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:100397 Archived-At: Over a year ago (2007-01-30) Eli Zaretskii gnu.org> wrote: ... > Please come back and revisit this issue after Emacs 22.1 is released. OK. I have waited, and now I'm back. :) ( The rest of this message is forwarded from https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emacs22/+bug/244276 ) Please add a command to the Help menu to show the user the Emacs guided tour. I see two options for how it could work: 1. You could make the command launch the system default web browser and point it to http://www.gnu.org/s/emacs/tour/ 2. Or you could ship the tour .odp and .pdf files with Emacs like XEmacs does [1], then ask the OS to launch them in whatever it thinks is the appropriate viewer. ^ [1]. http://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/beta/experimental/packages/guided-tour- 0.52-pkg.tar.gz