Luis Felipe López Acevedo writes: > On 2015-10-20 17:45, BCG wrote: >> On 10/19/2015 12:29 PM, Christopher Allan Webber wrote: >>> Amirouche Boubekki writes: >>> >>>> To the contrary I think it's not a good idea to start upfront the >>>> tutorial with which editor should be used is a good way to loose half >>>> of >>>> the readers, because they will feel more uncomfortable and not up to >>>> the >>>> task. To be useful emacs requires one 'Getting Started' tutorial in >>>> itself. Or anykind of setup for that matter. The tutorial should go >>>> as >>>> quickly as possible to the matter and start with coding. >>>> >>>> I started a tutorial at http://hypermove.net/. I don't introduce >>>> readline until the user knows what the REPL is. Part 1 is all done in >>>> REPL. I subtly introduce emacs as a good choice for an editor in part >>>> 2 >>>> which is done in an editor. But doesn't enforce it. >>> Okay, sorry if I wasn't being clear... my goal in that section would >>> be >>> to encourage everyone who *isn't already an emacs user* to pick up a >>> simple editor and know how to use that with Guile, but them give them >>> a >>> brief tip that they want to look into Emacs + Geiser once they've >>> dived >>> in a bit more deeply. >>> >>> I don't think this section needs to be too long. I agree it should >>> not >>> be overwhelming. >>> >> Personally I would appreciate a not-so-brief tip. Most resources on >> the web about coding in scheme seem to claim that emacs is the best >> environment for it, but rarely go into the reasoning about why or >> provide a focused way to get started with it. I'd be happy to try out >> those tools, but it hardly is worth it to me to slog through the emacs >> tutorial just to see if I like whatever advantages it may have for >> coding Scheme. > > I think a video tutorial to get the user started with Guile + Emacs > would be great for that. First video in a "Learn GNU Guile" series > hosted in a MediaGoblin instance :)
That would be great, yes!
