From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: drain Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: interactive tutorial Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 04:11:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <1363950668148-281528.post@n5.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1363950685 23220 80.91.229.3 (22 Mar 2013 11:11:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 11:11:25 +0000 (UTC) To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 22 12:11:51 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UIzsz-0004EM-6R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:11:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34209 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UIzsb-0003qq-LS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:11:25 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:33294) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UIzsM-0003pr-2Y for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:11:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UIzsK-0005Hs-RT for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:11:10 -0400 Original-Received: from sam.nabble.com ([216.139.236.26]:47417) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UIzsK-0005Hl-MQ for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 07:11:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.236.26] (helo=sam.nabble.com) by sam.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UIzsK-0002KG-4z for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 04:11:08 -0700 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 216.139.236.26 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:89661 Archived-At: Is there any kind of interactive tutorial? I'm trying my best to force Emacs onto some of my non-programmer friends (e.g., writers, linguists, etc.), but without much success. The problem is, in their cases, org-mode is the target functionality, but it is built on a substrate of Emacs commands. Thus, it would be nice if there were a gaming-style tutorial in which the user must press keys in certain combinations to progress, e.g., he must successfully delete paragraphs using certain commands, in a certain combination, and only then would he be permitted to go to Level Two in the tutorial. He could even be given scores for timing and precision. This would be like the mini-games in SEGA's Crazy Taxi for Dreamcast. Anyway, at a certain point I think if they are too lazy to learn Emacs the hard way, then they are unworthy of Emacs; but I still think a mechanism to flatten out the learning curve would be nice. And plus I always thought it would be amusing for Emacs users to compete in Emacs-based mini-games. -- View this message in context: http://emacs.1067599.n5.nabble.com/interactive-tutorial-tp281528.html Sent from the Emacs - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.