Re: guided tour suggestions

[Phil Sung <psung@MIT.EDU>]

karl@freefriends.org (Karl Berry) writes:
> From: daniel@brockman.se
>
> I am reading the newly-installed Emacs guided tour[1] and
> taking notes as I go along.

Thanks for your fixes! I've incorporated your suggestions (patch below).

Could a webmaster please install this patch? Thank you.

--Phil

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Index: tour/index.html
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RCS file: /web/emacs/emacs/tour/index.html,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -c -c -r1.6 index.html
*** tour/index.html	2 May 2007 11:17:56 -0000	1.6
--- tour/index.html	3 May 2007 20:04:25 -0000
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*** 155,161 ****
    <tr><td><tt>C-a</tt></td><td>Beginning of line</td>      <td><tt>C-e</tt></td><td>End of line</td></tr>
    <tr><td><tt>M-f</tt></td><td>Forward one word</td>       <td><tt>M-b</tt></td><td>Back one word</td></tr>
    <tr><td><tt>M-a</tt></td><td>Previous sentence</td>      <td><tt>M-e</tt></td><td>Next sentence</td></tr>
!   <tr><td><tt>C-v</tt></td><td>Previous screen</td>        <td><tt>M-v</tt></td><td>Next screen</td></tr>
    <tr><td><tt>M-&lt;</tt></td><td>Beginning of buffer</td> <td><tt>M-&gt;</tt></td><td>End of buffer</td></tr>
  </table>
  
--- 155,161 ----
    <tr><td><tt>C-a</tt></td><td>Beginning of line</td>      <td><tt>C-e</tt></td><td>End of line</td></tr>
    <tr><td><tt>M-f</tt></td><td>Forward one word</td>       <td><tt>M-b</tt></td><td>Back one word</td></tr>
    <tr><td><tt>M-a</tt></td><td>Previous sentence</td>      <td><tt>M-e</tt></td><td>Next sentence</td></tr>
!   <tr><td><tt>M-v</tt></td><td>Previous screen</td>        <td><tt>C-v</tt></td><td>Next screen</td></tr>
    <tr><td><tt>M-&lt;</tt></td><td>Beginning of buffer</td> <td><tt>M-&gt;</tt></td><td>End of buffer</td></tr>
  </table>
  
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*** 506,513 ****
  <p>See <tt>(info "(emacs)Regexps")</tt> for more information about regexp
    syntax.</p>
  
- <p>Emacs regexps support a superset of Perl's regexp constructs. </p>
- 
  <p>If you're new to regexps, or you are constructing a particularly complicated
    regexp, you can use the regexp builder (<tt>M-x re-builder</tt>). This
    command pops up a separate window in which you can test out your regexp, and
--- 506,511 ----
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*** 599,605 ****
  <p>Here are some more assorted tools:</p>
  
  <table>
!   <tr><td><tt>M-x calc</tt></td><td>An RPN calculator.</td></tr>
    <tr><td><tt>M-x calendar</tt></td><td>A calendar.</td></tr>
    <tr><td><tt>M-x phases-of-moon</tt></td><td>Shows upcoming quarters of the
        moon.</td></tr>
--- 597,603 ----
  <p>Here are some more assorted tools:</p>
  
  <table>
!   <tr><td><tt>M-x calculator</tt></td><td>A calculator.</td></tr>
    <tr><td><tt>M-x calendar</tt></td><td>A calendar.</td></tr>
    <tr><td><tt>M-x phases-of-moon</tt></td><td>Shows upcoming quarters of the
        moon.</td></tr>
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*** 712,717 ****
--- 710,716 ----
    <tr><td><tt>C-x )</tt></td><td>Stop recording macro</td></tr>
    <tr><td><tt>C-x e</tt></td><td>Play back macro once</td></tr>
    <tr><td><tt>C-x e e e</tt>...</td><td>Play back macro multiple times</td></tr>
+   <tr><td><tt>M-0 C-x e</tt></td><td>Play back macro over and over until it fails</td></tr>
  </table>
  
  <p>For example, this sequence of keys does the exact same transformation that
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*** 785,791 ****
  <table>
    <tr><td><tt>C-/</tt></td><td>Undo</td></tr>
    <tr><td><tt>C-u C-/</tt></td><td>Undo within current region</td></tr>
!   <tr><td><tt>M-x shell</tt></td><td>New shell buffer</td></tr>
    <tr><td><tt>C-u M-x shell</tt></td><td>New shell buffer with specified
        name</td></tr>
  </table>
--- 784,790 ----
  <table>
    <tr><td><tt>C-/</tt></td><td>Undo</td></tr>
    <tr><td><tt>C-u C-/</tt></td><td>Undo within current region</td></tr>
!   <tr><td><tt>M-x shell</tt></td><td>Switch to shell buffer</td></tr>
    <tr><td><tt>C-u M-x shell</tt></td><td>New shell buffer with specified
        name</td></tr>
  </table>
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*** 828,841 ****
    use a separate command which will create a buffer and initialize it for you:</p>
  
  <table>
!   <tr><td><tt>M-x shell</tt></td><td>Create a new shell buffer</td></tr>
    <tr><td><tt>M-x dired</tt></td><td>Create a new Dired buffer</td></tr>
  </table>
  
! <p>Emacs ships with a major mode for pretty much every widely used programming
!   language (and then some). These major modes provide language-specific
!   indentation rules and syntax highlighting, and other language-specific
!   commands. For starters:</p>
  
  <table class="greytop">
    <thead>
--- 827,841 ----
    use a separate command which will create a buffer and initialize it for you:</p>
  
  <table>
!   <tr><td><tt>M-x shell</tt></td><td>Create a new shell buffer (or switch to an
!       existing one)</td></tr>
    <tr><td><tt>M-x dired</tt></td><td>Create a new Dired buffer</td></tr>
  </table>
  
! <p>Emacs ships with major modes for many widely used programming languages,
!   markup languages, and configuration file formats. These major modes provide
!   language-specific indentation rules and syntax highlighting, and other
!   language-specific commands. Some examples:</p>
  
  <table class="greytop">
    <thead>
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*** 846,851 ****
--- 846,855 ----
    <tr><td>HTML</td><td>Insert and close tags; preview in browser</td></tr>
  </table>
  
+ <p>In almost all cases, major modes for unsupported formats are available as
+   extension packages. You can find many of them
+   on <a href="http://www.emacswiki.org/">EmacsWiki</a>.</p>
+ 
  <p>See <tt>(info "(emacs)Major Modes")</tt> for more information.</p>
  
  <h3>Minor modes</h3>