Please add a "Guided Tour" menu command

[Jason Spiro]

[ This bug has been forwarded upstream. You can see the upstream thread at http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/65537/focus=100397 ]

Binary package hint: emacs22

Please add a command to the Help menu to show the user the Emacs guided tour. I see two options for how it could work:

1. You could make the command launch the system default web browser and point it to http://www.gnu.org/s/emacs/tour/

2. Or you could ship the tour .odp and .pdf files with Emacs like XEmacs does[1], then ask the OS to launch them in whatever it thinks is the appropriate viewer.

^ [1]. http://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/beta/experimental/packages/guided-tour-0.52-pkg.tar.gz

[Jason Spiro (jasonspiro)]

I just manually forwarded this feature request to emacs-devel <at> gnu dot org using my email program. I mentioned in the manual forward that it was forwarded from here. I hope the message will make it to the mailing list. Email subject was: Please add a "Guided Tour" menu command

[Romain Francoise (rfrancoise)]

The link is now present in the splash screen, does that satisfy your feature request?

[Jason Spiro (jasonspiro)]

Romain, no. I think it would be better prefer to also have a link on the Help menu. That's because I bet many users look only on the Help menu, and not also on the splash screen, for help.

(I am also forwarding my comment to the upstream thread.)

[JC Hulce (soaringsky)]

Thank you for your suggestion. However, the changes you are requesting aren't really a bug and require more discussion, which should be done on an appropriate mailing list or forum. http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists might be a good start for determining which mailing list to use, or contact the upstream project.