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Re: guided tour suggestions
From: |
Chong Yidong |
Subject: |
Re: guided tour suggestions |
Date: |
Sat, 02 Jun 2007 16:52:51 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.990 (gnu/linux) |
I've just managed to find the time to read through the guided tour. I
must say, it's a very impressive job. I have a few suggestions to
make:
0. Am I the only one that thinks the parts of the text in <tt> are too
small to be legible? Or are my Firefox fonts screwed up?
1. The screenshots on http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/ are too
zoomed out to be legible. I guess the reason for this is so that
the entire Emacs window can be displayed. I think it would be
better if the screenshot images on the main page of the tour are at
100% zoom, and cropped so that only the relevant part of the window
is seen. When you click on each image, it should bring you to a
bigger imager showing the entire Emacs window.
2. In the Mark section, under the column labelled "When you...", the
first entry is "C-SPC". To be grammatical, this should be "type
C-SPC". In the same column, the entry "Exit a search (C-s or C-r)"
is confusing: these are the keystrokes to enter a search, not exit
a search.
3. In the section on Isearch, the sentioned "You can incremental
search backwards" is grammatically fishy. Maybe "You can perform a
backward incremental search" is better.
4. In "Integration with common tools", I think we should recommend
M-x man instead of M-x woman. As far as I know, the latter is only
useful on systems where man is unavailable (though that may just be
sexism).
5. In the section on Macros, I think we should recommend the F3 and F4
keys new to Emacs 22, since they are easier to use than the old
kmacro keys.
6. In the Emacs Help Facilities section, the suggestion to run Info
with M-x info can probably use C-h i instead. Also, the sentence
"You can also read the GNU Emacs manual in Emacs with (info
"(emacs)")" is confusing -- do you mean the menu-bar?
Also, I wonder if the tour should mention transient mark mode. Now
that font-lock-mode is on by default, transient mark mode is IMHO the
reigning champion for Feature That Should Be Turned On By Default But
Isn't.
- Re: guided tour suggestions,
Chong Yidong <=