From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Making Emacs popular again with a video Date: Fri, 08 May 2020 14:33:39 +0300 Message-ID: <83lfm2iru4.fsf@gnu.org> References: <5230692c-c665-a330-7a12-e59fa25d97dd@gmail.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="16348"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nathan Colinet Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri May 08 13:34:26 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1jX1Gr-000496-Hk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 08 May 2020 13:34:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53096 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jX1Gq-0006EB-JB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 08 May 2020 07:34:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33442) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jX1GJ-0005da-09 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 08 May 2020 07:33:51 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:53703) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jX1GI-0007vW-M7; Fri, 08 May 2020 07:33:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2616 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jX1GI-0001UL-2f; Fri, 08 May 2020 07:33:50 -0400 In-Reply-To: <5230692c-c665-a330-7a12-e59fa25d97dd@gmail.com> (message from Nathan Colinet on Fri, 8 May 2020 10:26:19 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:249265 Archived-At: > From: Nathan Colinet > Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 10:26:19 +0200 > > I started using emacs a year ago and when I started everything was > really confusing, what is a frame, what is a buffer, how to install > packages, what are major and minor modes, etc.. I wanted to give up but > then I saw a 1 hour talk about Emacs that shows how powerful it is. Then > I was hooked. Unfortunately the sound was no good at all and it was way > too long. I think it could be really benefic for emacs to have a 5-10 > minutes video that would present Emacs not as an old obscure porgram but > as an amazing fresh looking tool that drastically improves efficiency. I > think people nowadays need an out-of-the-box experience, that's why > promoting doom-emacs or spacemacs might be better than the default Emacs. > > I think if the video is well realised it could really be a huge win. I think it's a very good idea. Would someone want to produce such a video?