From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Corneli Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: splash screen (was Re: How do I set border color in 21.3 (Win32)) Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 08:30:36 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87k6lf521a.fsf@wigwam.deepwood.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1117546313 4986 80.91.229.2 (31 May 2005 13:31:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 13:31:53 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 31 15:31:44 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dd6ol-0008Gv-IW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 May 2005 15:30:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dd6tr-0007Gu-9s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 31 May 2005 09:35:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dd6tK-00079U-5C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2005 09:34:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Dd6tI-00078B-33 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2005 09:34:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dd6tH-00077x-Qy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2005 09:34:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [146.6.139.124] (helo=dell3.ma.utexas.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Dd6r5-0002kp-Li for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 31 May 2005 09:32:27 -0400 Original-Received: from lab1.ma.utexas.edu (mail@lab1.ma.utexas.edu [128.83.133.39]) by dell3.ma.utexas.edu (8.11.0.Beta3/8.10.2) with ESMTP id j4VDUax08927; Tue, 31 May 2005 08:30:36 -0500 Original-Received: from jcorneli by lab1.ma.utexas.edu with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1Dd6pI-00008Y-00; Tue, 31 May 2005 08:30:36 -0500 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-reply-to: <87k6lf521a.fsf@wigwam.deepwood.net> (message from Daniel Brockman on Tue, 31 May 2005 08:42:57 +0200) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:27093 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:27093 Seriously, I can't think of a good way to find this out on your own. I don't blame you for asking; the name is far from obvious. And yet I'm sure it could be made obvious with a simple splash screen. "What you are looking at now is called Emacs. It has big spaces that you type in called 'buffers' and a stripe across the bottom with text in it called a 'mode line'. The mode line tells you what buffer you're looking at (and what mode it is in). Below the modeline is an 'echo area', more commonly called the 'minibuffer'. At the edges of the screen you see vertical stripes called 'fringes'. If you type M-x customize-basic-appearance (hold down the meta key, often Alt, and press x, then type and tab-complete the name of the function) you can change the way Emacs looks. For further information, you might enjoy the Emacs info pages, typically M-x info C-s extensible C-a RET. Have a nice day..." or whatever.