Releasing the Emacs guided tour into the public domain; also, video

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Jason Spiro writes:

 > Could you tell us more about how you foresee the tutorial helper working?

Not much, I'm purely thinking in terms of under what situations
content might want to migrate across legal boundaries.  Basically I
had in mind something like code to launch the various applications
displayed (eg, adding a tour-specific drop down menu) if the user
wanted to actually try them.

 > Wouldn't it be even more useful if the guided tour displayed itself as
 > plain text inside XEmacs itself (maybe with text facsimiles of
 > screenshots, ASCII art, and/or inline embedded graphics if someone
 > spends the time to add them)?

Offhand, I don't really see why.  The advantage to being "inside" of
XEmacs would be practice in editing, as in the existing tutorial.
Otherwise, I don't see why it matters whether the text is displayed in
XEmacs or in a separate application launched from XEmacs.

What do you have in mind?