bug#4960: 23.1.50; Please provide access to the tour on the Help menu; preferably ship it also

[Kevin Rodgers]

Juri Linkov wrote:
> The Web Guided Tour is an advertisement of Emacs features.
> It doesn't provide any help.  So the "Help" menu is not appropriate.
> We could create a new menu "Ads" ;-)
>
> BTW, I noticed that the About screen doesn't say that the link
> will start the browser (like it says on the startup screen).
> Here is a fix:
>
> Index: lisp/startup.el
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /sources/emacs/emacs/lisp/startup.el,v
> retrieving revision 1.550
> diff -u -r1.550 startup.el
> --- lisp/startup.el     6 Nov 2009 05:16:28 -0000       1.550
> +++ lisp/startup.el     20 Nov 2009 09:31:21 -0000
> @@ -1371,7 +1371,7 @@
>       :link ("Emacs Guided Tour"
>             (lambda (button) (browse-url 
> "http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/";))
>             "Browse http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/";)
> -     "\tSee an overview of the many facilities of GNU Emacs"
> +     "\tSee an overview of Emacs facilities at gnu.org"
>       ))
>    "A list of texts to show in the middle part of the About screen.
>  Each element in the list should be a list of strings or pairs

Although I appreciate the connotation of "facilities",  I think "features"
would be better understood by curious new users.

And if you want to emphasize that the button is a link to the World Wide
Web, why not "http://www.gnu.org"; instead of just "gnu.org"?

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Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA