Re: interactive tutorial

[Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com>]

On 2013-03-22, drain wrote:

> 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.
>
Not exactly but:

  http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-lisp-intro/html_node/index.html

  http://www.lisperati.com/casting-spels-emacs/html/casting-spels-emacs-1.html

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Best regards!