From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mathias Dahl" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: guided tour suggestions Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 10:23:52 +0200 Message-ID: <7dbe73ed0706030123r73fb13ciec70e3ed186e6191@mail.gmail.com> References: <87k5umdqos.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1180859045 20423 80.91.229.12 (3 Jun 2007 08:24:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 08:24:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Drew Adams" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 03 10:24:04 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 1HulNa-00031r-3E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 10:24:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HulNZ-0008FB-Cc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 04:24:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HulNU-00089t-Di for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 04:23:56 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HulNS-00085K-OH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 04:23:55 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HulNS-00084c-AE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 04:23:54 -0400 Original-Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.175]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HulNR-0006vM-TI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 04:23:54 -0400 Original-Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 34so589069ugf for ; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 01:23:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=FkpNFISJZJF4kSWmeHzemLDLhVfLeY88zuc1ptBebyUJW32Wp9jbQLMyoCpZYRjXugKgIP1un8BzfrH4UKjX40b0ti4wxoO2XX5IdZOAt/QP7tdZCUE9WwvQBD1MAQKCPZC9BeJeFNxG8/SSYy2mBj2cVUUPhv0YOnSjTyO+KnU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=rmZExbE62rljk9c6vd260pyG3rFxKkdI2oaKgmKXPhZ7AVaurmSfjIe8WR/sPaNQrVabmaYM8Dtvic3LOd+Sz6GS7sHhNT02T4yrznV41HWCwLrpN0PPnNT//A2BrTNCG5G2l9uchBRQNR76yVPkTe2T9Avk365Bus/J4IPw8e8= Original-Received: by 10.78.172.20 with SMTP id u20mr1696303hue.1180859032448; Sun, 03 Jun 2007 01:23:52 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.78.51.15 with HTTP; Sun, 3 Jun 2007 01:23:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 (Google crawlbot) 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:72099 Archived-At: > > 0. Am I the only one that thinks the parts of the text in are too > > small to be legible? Or are my Firefox fonts screwed up? > > They look OK for me, in IE6.0. That font is very small for me too, running FF 2 under Mandriva GNU/Linux. > * The code screenshot should show a language that Emacs newbies might be > familiar with, instead of Emacs Lisp - e.g. C++, Java. Agree. > The section should be called "Keyboard Macros" (or "Recording Interactions" > or some such), however, not Macros. Agree. > It might be useful to state that, unlike other editors, you can, in effect, > undo past undo actions (without going into detail trying to describe exactly > what that means). I agree, this could be enough. > What feature is not useful? "Useful features" even includes > phases-of-the-moon Indeed it does. In my work I work with collegues in Sri Lanka, where they celebrate "Poya" around full moons, so it is very useful. :) Thanks for this tour!