Re: "About Emacs" page

[Summer Emacs <summeremacs@summerstar.me>]

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> On Sep 22, 2024, at 07:26, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
>> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2024 00:09:45 -0400
>> 
>> These changes could be considered.  Where to put them is significant
>> only in a practical way; if a different placement works better, that's
>> fine to change.
> 
> They are all a dozen lines in a relatively small window.  One cannot
> miss any of them when looking at that window.  We can argue about the
> order till kingdom come, but eventually it makes very little
> difference.  It isn't like the order says something about their
> importance -- they are all important.

Of course. I’m not suggesting we take any of them out - just reorder them a bit into more organised clusters with immediate importance stuff at the top.

>>> 
>> Should we change its contents to make it a real guided tour?
> 
> Before this happens, someone should write such a tour.  It's a
> non-trivial job, to say the least, and my hat's off to whoever will be
> bale to pull that.  For now, we have what we have, which isn't ideal,
> but better than nothing.  And I don't see anything wrong with its
> placement.

That’s literally what I’ve been working on. However, I was out most of the weekend doing other stuff, and I was also very busy with my job before that. I’m trying to get back to it this week, but we’ll see. It will take a while because, as it’s been noted, it is a rather big task to accomplish. 🙃


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