Re: "About Emacs" page

[Philip Kaludercic]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

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>
>   > I understand that it is easy to gloss over the *About GNU Emacs* buffer
>   > when you start Emacs for the first time, and just want to get started.
>   > Personally, it seems that just setting "Learn basic Emacs keystroke
>   > commands" in a bold type face might help...
>
> If it helps, I see nothing against it.

FWIW this is all that it would take:

diff --git a/lisp/startup.el b/lisp/startup.el
index 738eec772ec..1ec2c8fc581 100644
--- a/lisp/startup.el
+++ b/lisp/startup.el
@@ -1839,6 +1839,7 @@ fancy-about-text
      :link ("Ordering Manuals" ,(lambda (_button) (view-order-manuals)))
      "\tBuying printed manuals from the FSF\n"
      "\n"
+     :face (variable-pitch bold)
      :link ("Emacs Tutorial" ,(lambda (_button) (help-with-tutorial)))
      "\tLearn basic Emacs keystroke commands"
      ,(lambda ()
@@ -1860,6 +1861,7 @@ fancy-about-text
         (if (string= en tut)
             ""
           (concat " (" title ")"))))
+     :face variable-pitch
      "\n"
      :link ("Emacs Guided Tour"
            ,(lambda (_button)

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