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guided tour suggestions
From: |
Karl Berry |
Subject: |
guided tour suggestions |
Date: |
Thu, 3 May 2007 13:03:34 -0500 |
We received this report on webmasters (thanks Daniel) ...
From: address@hidden
I am reading the newly-installed Emacs guided tour[1] and
taking notes as I go along.
First, this seems wrong (it's the other way around):
C-v Previous screen M-v Next screen
Second, this seems like an overstatement (Perl has quite a
lot of regexp constructs):
Emacs regexps support a superset of Perl's regexp constructs.
As just one example, Emacs doesn't support negative lookahead.
Third, here,
M-x calc An RPN calculator.
maybe it is better to mention `M-x calculator' instead?
Fourth, here,
C-x ( Start recording macro
C-x ) Stop recording macro
C-x e Play back macro once
C-x e e e... Play back macro multiple times
maybe add this item:
M-0 C-x e Play back macro over and over until it fails
Fifth, this
M-x shell New shell buffer
C-u M-x shell New shell buffer with specified name
should probably look like this:
M-x shell Switch to shell buffer
C-u M-x shell Make new shell buffer
Sixth, this also seems like an overstatement:
Emacs ships with a major mode for pretty much every
widely used programming language (and then some).
Perhaps say it like this instead:
Emacs ships with major modes for many widely used
programming languages, markup languages, configuration
file formats, etc. In almost all cases, major modes for
unsupported formats are available as extension packages.
(Take a look at <a href="http://www.emacswiki.org/">EmacsWiki</a>.)
--
Daniel Brockman <address@hidden>
[1] http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/tour/
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Karl Berry <=