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Re: guided tour suggestions
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David Kastrup |
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Re: guided tour suggestions |
Date: |
Thu, 28 Jun 2007 12:25:38 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.51 (gnu/linux) |
David House <address@hidden> writes:
> Perhaps we could have a little section in the tour showing off how
> customisable Emacs is. We could say:
>
> If you want a more bare-bones Emacs, a good start might be to turn
> off some of the more prominent GUI features.
>
> [Screenshot showing Custom buffer with settings to turn off
> scrollbar, menus and toolbar, in an Emacs without those features
> activated.]
Personally, I find this irrelevant for a tour. A single sentence "All
of the graphical and other features can be customized and also turned
off if desired" is sufficient.
If we really _must_ show anything in that respect, a customize buffer
is not really convincing. Instead, the Options/Show/Hide menu would
be more appropriate.
> Every single time a different colour or font is used, you can
> customise which one to use:
>
> [Screenshot showing an Emacs with a white-on-black colour scheme
> and a non-default font.]
It is actually not much of a selling point: most people just assume
that they can configure stuff like that.
> These are just the GUI customisations. Here's a selection of the
> other things you can change:
>
> * Every single key binding in every single mode can be remapped, including
> mouse sequences.
> * You can redefine any function or command by writing Emacs Lisp.
> [... a few more things here]
>
> Because all of these options can be overwhelming, Emacs provides a powerful
> configuration interface, M-x custom:
>
> [Screenshot of the top Custom group.]
>
> http://emacswiki.org also contains a veritable library of common and
> not-so-common customisations.
>
> Or something of the sort. I think this is an important part of Emacs we should
> try to convey.
Maybe. We should not overdo this aspect. After all, one _can_ work
reasonably well with the default settings. Customizing Emacs is
something for which the desire will only come with some time of usage.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: guided tour suggestions, (continued)
- Re: guided tour suggestions, Phil Sung, 2007/06/11
- RE: guided tour suggestions, Drew Adams, 2007/06/11
- Re: guided tour suggestions, Phil Sung, 2007/06/26
- RE: guided tour suggestions, Drew Adams, 2007/06/27
- Re: guided tour suggestions, David Kastrup, 2007/06/27
- Re: guided tour suggestions, Nick Roberts, 2007/06/27
- Re: guided tour suggestions, David Kastrup, 2007/06/27
- Re: guided tour suggestions, Phil Sung, 2007/06/28
- Re: guided tour suggestions, David Kastrup, 2007/06/28
- Re: guided tour suggestions, David House, 2007/06/28
- Re: guided tour suggestions,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: guided tour suggestions, Nick Roberts, 2007/06/28
- Re: guided tour suggestions, David Kastrup, 2007/06/28
- Re: guided tour suggestions, Juri Linkov, 2007/06/29
- Re: guided tour suggestions, Nick Roberts, 2007/06/29
- Re: guided tour suggestions, David House, 2007/06/30