Re: evangelizing Emacs with a graphical tutorial (was: minor sugg...splash screen)

["Jason Spiro" <jasonspiro4@gmail.com>]

2007/1/30, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
> > From: Jason Spiro <jasonspiro4+news@gmail.com>
> > Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2007 05:38:08 -0500
> >
> > "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> wrote:
> > > FWIW, here are some minor suggestions for the splash screen.
> > [snip]
> >
> > I agree wholeheartedly with your suggestions.  I have one more: We
> > should provide a clickable link to a graphical tutorial on the Emacs
> > splash screen.
> >
> > http://stuff.mit.edu/iap/emacs/emacs-slides-1.pdf seems to be a good
> > one.  It quickly covers the basics such as how to move the cursor.
> > Then it gets to the useful stuff, such as the kill ring, isearch, etc.
> >
> > I took a show of hands at my school's LUG meeting today, and only 10%
> > of the students used Emacs.  Nowadays, too many people use non-Free
> > IDEs.  Is there any better way to show people the power of Emacs than
> > a graphical tutorial?
> >
> > If I submit a patch to implement this link, will it be accepted?
>
> Thanks, but please don't, not now: we are in the middle of a pretest,
> striving to put out Emacs 22.1 ASAP.  Any changes that are not
> bugfixes distract us from the pretest and run the risk of adding new
> bugs, thus delaying the release.
>
> Please come back and revisit this issue after Emacs 22.1 is released.

Could this, too, be added to the TODO file? :-)

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