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Re: Please add a "Guided Tour" menu command


From: Jason Spiro
Subject: Re: Please add a "Guided Tour" menu command
Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2008 23:10:34 +0000 (UTC)
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Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> > Overview
> >  Web Tour
> >  Tutorial
> >  FAQ
> >  What's New
> >  Known Problems
> 
> Looks good to me.

*  I like the idea of removing the word "Emacs" from the beginning of the five
menu items Drew mentioned.

*  I don't like the idea of moving the tour into a submenu.  It is one of the
most important help items for newbies, perhaps more important than the manual. 
I suspect that putting the tour in a submenu will make less users click on it. 
What is the disadvantage of just leaving the Help menu long?

*  I don't like the World Wide Web.  If I were an Emacs newbie, I would not
click "Web Tour".  I would click "Tutorial" instead.  So I would miss out on the
tour.  I Is there any way for us to tell Help menu viewers that the tour
describes a much wider variety of useful features for programmers and others,
but the tutorial covers only text editing basics?  Maybe name the menu items
"Tutorial (for non-programmers only)" and "Web Tour (for everyone)"?





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