From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Please add a "Guided Tour" menu command Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:18:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87ejpc3ilr.fsf@localhost.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <878wwen09k.fsf@jurta.org> <87wsfjtl0s.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> <88a0562f61538a9866b6ecce1c46c7a6.squirrel@webmail.jurta.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1225837115 31548 80.91.229.12 (4 Nov 2008 22:18:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 22:18:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jason Spiro Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 04 23:19:38 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1KxUFE-000054-5O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 23:19:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41271 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KxUE7-0000kA-4h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:18:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KxUDw-0000br-KH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:18:08 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KxUDt-0000aS-Ut for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:18:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=55223 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KxUDt-0000aG-Ct for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:18:05 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout5.012.net.il ([84.95.2.13]:47793) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KxUDs-0002Ou-La for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Nov 2008 17:18:05 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.241.172]) by i_mtaout5.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0K9T009C3Y0Q2EJ0@i_mtaout5.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:19:46 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 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:105381 Archived-At: > From: Jason Spiro > Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 22:03:13 +0000 (UTC) > > Eli Zaretskii 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. We are miscommunicating. I was talking about the format, not the contents. > The advantages of the screenshots is that a screenshot is worth a thousand > words. It shows an Emacs mode in action. Emacs can display images embedded in text, so this is not a problem.