Re: Efforts to attract more users?

[Bernardo Barros <bernardobarros2@gmail.com>]

I think if a person stay some time with emacs he/she will find it
fantastic. But I know people that just give up because they don't see
all the things Emacs can do, they just see a text editor that is
different from any standard, including the documentation terminology
and shortcuts. It mentions keys that just don't exist anymore, have
its own terminology for simple things like "copy" and "paste", and a
lot of it'sa shortcuts where design to keyboards that are not
manufactured anymore.

But they could leave before they realise they can customize every bit
of the program, and that this terminology has its charm after all.

I don't know... maybe just taking a look at the keyboards, see how
they really are today, and the largely used terminology shoud help a
lot.

2010/7/8 Fren Zeee <frenzeee@gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 4:28 PM, Dan Nicolaescu <dann@gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>> Ken Hori <fplemma@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > I hate to ask pedestrian sort of a question
>> > like this, but are there any efforts specifically to attract more users?
>
> Perhaps, by writing more colorful manuals more users could be attracted. :))
>
> While on this topic, I googled for 15th edition of emacs.pdf but could
> not find it. The 14th edition had blue hyperlinks but 16th is devoid
> of it. A quick download link would be appreciated. Is there a page
> where all the older official compiled version of emacs and its manuals
> are stored ? Whats the command to check-out working sources for the
> earliest compilable version of emacs ? I want to try that. I am
> familiar with the following for example.
>
> svn checkout http://software.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ software-read-only
>
> Cheers
> Franz Xe
>
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