From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Oleksandr Gavenko Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: interactive tutorial Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 21:50:34 +0200 Organization: Oleksandr Gavenko , http://gavenkoa.users.sf.net Message-ID: <87wqsxj3p1.fsf@gavenkoa.example.com> References: <1363950668148-281528.post@n5.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1364068268 23814 80.91.229.3 (23 Mar 2013 19:51:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 19:51:08 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 23 20:51:34 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 1UJUTT-0003zO-2K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 20:51:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52827 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJUT5-0004jW-G9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:51:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:45358) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJUSl-0004j7-HK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:50:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJUSj-0001U9-At for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:50:47 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:52731) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UJUSi-0001Tm-JE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:50:45 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UJUT5-0003kR-23 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 20:51:07 +0100 Original-Received: from 5.248.35.167 ([5.248.35.167]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 20:51:07 +0100 Original-Received: from gavenkoa by 5.248.35.167 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 23 Mar 2013 20:51:07 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 5.248.35.167 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WrpIjiTm1mbwZQl0WGO6tGg8Ons= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:89698 Archived-At: 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 -- Best regards!