Re: Should not tutorial always use the default global map?

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>]

David Kastrup wrote:

>Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> writes:
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>>If we perhaps would just for this time let him/her go away and as an
>>example for humankind be more friendly we could for example add this
>>two lines at the end of `help-with-tutorial':
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>>    (make-local-variable 'emulation-mode-map-alists)
>>    (setq emulation-mode-map-alists nil)
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>>This would let the tutorial work just as it is supposed to do. We
>>could also add a line at the top explaining this. Anyone more than me
>>for this peaceful solution?
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>There is no point in a tutorial that behaves differently from the rest
>of the editor.  People want to learn how to use Emacs, not how to walk
>through the tutorial.
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The tutorial is a tutorial for using Emacs in its "default mode", not a 
tutorial for Emacs in other ways. So I think there is a point, but you 
have to make it clear for the user.

An alternative to my above proposal is to mention this in the beginning 
of the tutorial and put a note in the buffer if Emacs seems to have 
other keymaps in use.