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Re: evangelizing Emacs with a graphical tutorial
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David Kastrup |
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Re: evangelizing Emacs with a graphical tutorial |
Date: |
Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:02:32 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:
> BTW, while looking now at the startup screen with a new nice image,
> I have a feeling that it is a bit unfriendly to put the word "to quit"
> just below the word "Welcome".
>
> I propose to move this line a few lines below to be after the line
> "To start". This would be more logical place and more friendly.
I am not sure about that: the most unfriendly thing an editor can do to
a beginner is not allowing him to quit. Now that's probably not an
issue for the GUI startup screen since we have File/Exit Emacs on the
menu.
Actually, the next unfriendly thing is not allowing a user _not_ to
quit. I just tried
C-h k M-F4
and got the following result:
Conspicuously absent in this plethora of answers is an option _not_ to
quit (presumably "Cancel"). Closing the dialog window happens to
achieve that, apparently, but it is not really obvious.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum