From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: guided tour suggestions Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 13:03:34 -0500 Message-ID: <200705031803.l43I3Yd29129@f7.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178215430 990 80.91.229.12 (3 May 2007 18:03:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 18:03:50 +0000 (UTC) Cc: daniel@brockman.se To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 03 20:03:46 2007 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 1HjfeX-00048p-1M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 20:03:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hjfl4-00035s-Af for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 14:10:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hjfl0-000349-H1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 14:10:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Hjfkz-000338-UA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 14:10:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Hjfkz-000335-Om for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 14:10:21 -0400 Original-Received: from server1.f7.net ([64.34.169.74] helo=f7.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HjfeR-0006D7-2k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 May 2007 14:03:35 -0400 X-Envelope-From: karl@freefriends.org X-Envelope-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: (from karl@localhost) by f7.net (8.11.7-20030920/8.11.7) id l43I3Yd29129; Thu, 3 May 2007 13:03:34 -0500 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:70519 Archived-At: We received this report on webmasters (thanks Daniel) ... From: daniel@brockman.se I am reading the newly-installed Emacs guided tour[1] and taking notes as I go along. First, this seems wrong (it's the other way around): C-v Previous screen M-v Next screen Second, this seems like an overstatement (Perl has quite a lot of regexp constructs): Emacs regexps support a superset of Perl's regexp constructs. As just one example, Emacs doesn't support negative lookahead. Third, here, M-x calc An RPN calculator. maybe it is better to mention `M-x calculator' instead? Fourth, here, C-x ( Start recording macro C-x ) Stop recording macro C-x e Play back macro once C-x e e e... Play back macro multiple times maybe add this item: M-0 C-x e Play back macro over and over until it fails Fifth, this M-x shell New shell buffer C-u M-x shell New shell buffer with specified name should probably look like this: M-x shell Switch to shell buffer C-u M-x shell Make new shell buffer Sixth, this also seems like an overstatement: Emacs ships with a major mode for pretty much every widely used programming language (and then some). Perhaps say it like this instead: Emacs ships with major modes for many widely used programming languages, markup languages, configuration file formats, etc. In almost all cases, major modes for unsupported formats are available as extension packages. (Take a look at EmacsWiki.) -- Daniel Brockman [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/