From: "Mathias Dahl" <mathias.dahl@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: The splash screens
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:23:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7dbe73ed0708200123q502ca1b5k6392a5b0b8e6c792@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7dbe73ed0708170358u3779fcebj2be02c03ebf1ac55@mail.gmail.com>
How about the following layout, my comments inside parentheses. This
is for the graphical splash screen:
---
[image, if people think it should be there]
GNU Emacs is one component of the GNU/Linux operating system.
You can do basic editing with the menu bar and scroll bar using the mouse.
To quit a partially entered command, type Control-g.
Important Help menu items:
Emacs Tutorial Learn how to use Emacs efficiently
Emacs FAQ Frequently asked questions and answers
View Emacs Manual View the Emacs manual using Info
Emacs Guided Tour See http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/ (*has
to be added to the Help menu)
(*btw, on my system, there seem to be a TAB character too much on the
last two lines above, the descriptions are not lined up well)
Useful tasks:
Visit New File Specify a new file's name, to edit the file
Open Home Directory Open your home directory, to operate on its files
Open *scratch* buffer Open buffer for notes you don't want to save
Customize Startup Change initialization settings including this screen
Useful File menu items: (*do we need this section at all?)
Exit Emacs (Or type Control-x followed by Control-c)
Recover Crashed Session Recover files you were editing before a crash
(*duplicate)
Other
Absence of Warranty GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY
Copying Conditions Conditions for redistributing and changing Emacs
Getting New Versions How to obtain the latest version of Emacs
More Manuals / Ordering Manuals Buying printed manuals from the FSF
This is GNU Emacs 22.1.50.19 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.10.3)
of 2007-08-17 on localhost
Copyright (C) 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
If an Emacs session crashed recently, type Meta-x recover-session RET
to recover the files you were editing.
---
What do people think?
/Mathias
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-20 8:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-17 10:58 The splash screens Mathias Dahl
2007-08-17 22:34 ` Juri Linkov
2007-08-19 15:57 ` Mathias Dahl
2007-08-19 17:52 ` Juri Linkov
2007-08-20 15:17 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-20 8:23 ` Mathias Dahl [this message]
2007-08-20 23:32 ` Juri Linkov
2007-08-21 9:03 ` Mathias Dahl
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