From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Possible change to startup.el
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 19:44:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x5acown8iy.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
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After I had another run-in on a German-spoken Usenet group about how
hard it was trying to google around for finding out about using Emacs
and Emacs terminology, in particular if you were not a native speaker
and so on, and getting the usual "how should I have known something
like this exists" reactions after quoting the relevant German tutorial
section, I would like to propose something like the following:
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*** /home/tmp/emacs/lisp/startup.el 2005-03-07 17:36:10.000000000 +0100
--- /usr/local/emacs-21/share/emacs/22.0.50/lisp/startup.el 2005-03-21 19:34:06.000000000 +0100
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*** 1298,1304 ****
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! for using Emacs efficiently.
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I actually don't think that this will have any noticeable effect on
people whose eyes glaze over at the first English or technical word
(like "Help" in the menu bar), but it would give one a bigger clue bat
with which to whack them.
The disadvantage of the patch is that it makes the screen one line
longer. I can't see a good way around it, except maybe dropping key
phrases like "efficiently" or "learn-by-doing".
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-21 18:44 David Kastrup [this message]
2005-03-21 20:50 ` Possible change to startup.el Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-21 21:10 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-21 21:25 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-03-21 22:14 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-22 0:03 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-03-22 1:38 ` David Hansen
2005-03-23 18:25 ` James Cloos
2005-03-27 3:53 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-22 4:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-22 6:24 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-22 8:15 ` Kenichi Handa
2005-03-22 8:27 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-22 10:40 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-22 12:44 ` Jason Rumney
2005-03-22 20:31 ` Werner LEMBERG
2005-03-22 11:23 ` Kenichi Handa
2005-03-22 12:33 ` Juri Linkov
2005-03-22 19:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-22 10:18 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-22 19:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-22 22:24 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-22 20:44 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-22 22:32 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-23 6:21 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-23 13:55 ` Juri Linkov
2005-03-23 18:01 ` Werner LEMBERG
2005-03-25 12:51 ` Kenichi Handa
2005-03-23 20:25 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-22 13:57 ` Richard Stallman
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-03-24 10:49 Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-24 19:05 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-25 6:43 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-25 18:07 Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-27 3:52 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-27 23:15 ` Juri Linkov
2005-03-28 22:53 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-29 20:19 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-30 4:08 ` Marcelo Toledo
2005-03-30 9:42 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-30 22:47 Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-30 23:38 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-01 4:11 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-31 1:40 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-31 1:02 ` Marcelo Toledo
2005-03-31 3:20 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-31 2:21 ` Marcelo Toledo
2005-03-31 6:59 ` Juri Linkov
2005-04-01 4:11 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-31 11:37 Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-31 12:05 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-31 13:32 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-31 14:29 ` Miles Bader
2005-03-31 16:15 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-31 22:23 ` Miles Bader
2005-04-01 4:10 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-31 12:01 Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-03-31 12:59 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-03-31 13:43 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-31 22:19 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-04-01 4:10 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-01 4:03 ` Juri Linkov
2005-04-03 5:20 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-03 10:31 Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-04-07 6:55 ` Juri Linkov
2005-04-08 3:22 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-08 6:31 ` Marcelo Toledo
2005-04-08 7:27 ` Kenichi Handa
2005-04-08 18:32 ` Juri Linkov
2005-04-08 18:43 ` Marcelo Toledo
2005-04-10 1:54 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-08 10:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-08 18:32 ` Juri Linkov
2005-04-09 8:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-13 23:58 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-14 4:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-14 9:46 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-15 8:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-04-14 19:03 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-14 23:40 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-17 1:49 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-17 9:31 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-17 19:20 ` Richard Stallman
2005-04-17 19:51 ` David Kastrup
2005-04-10 1:54 ` Richard Stallman
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