Re: Interactive guide for new users (was: Re: Gather a list of confusions beginner tend to have)

[Gregory Heytings]

> > > I wouldn't call these basics "subtleties".  They are the most 
> > > fundamental terminology in Emacs.
> >
> > They are indeed, I'm not denying this.  My point of view here is: what 
> > are the most essential things that a user needs to know to use Emacs if 
> > we have no more than three minutes?  Clearly (at least to me) it is 
> > possible to use Emacs without knowing what a "buffer" or a "window" is.
>
> How would they even understand the doc strings without knowing what's a 
> buffer and what's a window?  We have the Glossary section in the manual, 
> for that very reason.

Again my point of view is: what are the most essential things that a user 
needs to know to use Emacs if we have no more than three minutes?  The 
point is to create a minimal configuration wizard / guided tour to 
introduce them to the most essential things and help them to create a 
minimal configuration with which they would feel "at home", instead of 
having the "this is weird" feeling.

You mention "doc strings", but why on earth would a user who just started 
using Emacs read doc strings?