Re: Intermediate tutorial shipped with Emacs

[Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> writes:

>  > That's a challenge in itself: how do you give "a taste" of a feature
>  > without describing it in full, or close to that.
>
> "Not describing it in full" is pretty much the definition of "a
> taste".
>
> I would envision this intermediate tutorial as a series of "HOWTO"
> do common tasks.  It would only explain enough of the feature to
> implement the HOWTO, and provide links to the manual.

I guess it's also a question of exposing nice features such a narrowing.
Sort of like the "discovery" tooltip shown in some programs, typically at
startup.

So I think a tutorial is as much about exposing "cool features".

Rasmus

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