Re: [Bug-zile] Alpha release: any blockers?

[Gary V. Vaughan]

Hi Reuben,

On 18 Aug 2011, at 21:10, Gary V. Vaughan wrote:
>> ==========================================================================
>> Welcome to GNU Zile.
>> 
>> Get Help        C-h (Hold down CTRL and press h)
>> 
>> For this, I would want to implement something like Emacs's extra
>> prompts. I don't think I can be bothered. Zile is designed for people
>> who already know Emacs, hence my stripping out of a lot of help and
>> tutorials over the years; Zile users won't need them and they're a
>> maintenance burden.
> 
> Good point.  Agreed.
> 
>> View Zile FAQ   C-c h
>> 
>> We don't have this command. (At least, not on the C branch.)
> 
> At the time I was proposing putting it back in.  I'm still not against
> that, but not keen enough to implement it myself either...
> 
>> Visit new file  C-x C-f
>> 
>> Emacs's splash screen doesn't have this command, as of 24.0.50.1.
> 
> Why ever not?  It seems like an obvious thing to have, especially for
> Zile with no help prompting.  I think it's a shame not to put that
> in.
> 
>> GNU Zile comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
>> Zile is Free Software--Free as in Freedom--so you can redistribute copies
>> of Zile and modify it; see the file COPYING. Otherwise, a copy can be
>> downloaded from http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html.
>> 
>> I've added this, thanks.

Oops, we forgot the: 'C-h or F1 not working? See 
file:///usr/local/share/zile/FAQ',
or similar.

Cheers,
-- 
Gary V. Vaughan (gary AT gnu DOT org)