Re: Making Emacs popular again with a video

[Stefan Kangas]

Nathan Colinet <address@hidden> writes:

> I started using emacs a year ago and when I started everything was
> really confusing, what is a frame, what is a buffer, how to install
> packages, what are major and minor modes, etc.. I wanted to give up but

Welcome to Emacs!  You made the right choice.

> then I saw a 1 hour talk about Emacs that shows how powerful it is. Then
> I was hooked. Unfortunately the sound was no good at all and it was way
> too long. I think it could be really benefic for emacs to have a 5-10
> minutes video that would present Emacs not as an old obscure porgram but
> as an amazing fresh looking tool that drastically improves efficiency.

This is a very good idea.  The only problem is that someone has to do
it.  :-)

Would you be prepared to volunteer for working on that?

> I think people nowadays need an out-of-the-box experience, that's why
> promoting doom-emacs or spacemacs might be better than the default
> Emacs.

This is valuable input, I think.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas