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From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Patch to remove minor modes in tutorial
Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 10:44:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44B0C1ED.8010905@student.lu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1FzJrw-0001nc-7w@fencepost.gnu.org>

Richard Stallman wrote:
> 	       ((eq (car value) 'cua-mode)
> 		(insert "You are using `cua-mode'."
>
> "You have enabled CUA mode" would be clearer.
>
> 			"  If the region is not active then C-c will"
> 			" work as it normally does in Emacs."))
>
> Please stick to present tense except when present tense is incorrect.
>
>      Please understand that it is ok to change key bindings, but the
>      tutorial may not work correctly. (See also "  )
>
> Change that to
>
>      It is legitimate to change key bindings, but changed bindings 
>      do not correspond to what the tutorial says.  (See also "  )
>
>
> This code
>
>       (let (initial-bad-keys)
>         (with-temp-buffer
> ...
>                 (unless
>                     (cond ( (eq key-fun def-fun)
> 		...
>
> is awfully complex, and most of the job it does is irrelevant.  The
> tutorial describes a small set of keys, perhaps 40.  I think this code
> should not concern itself with keys that the tutorial does not teach.
>
> It should simply have a list of those keys and their standard
> bindings.  That way it would not need to read bindings.el.
>
> (Not all the default bindings are in bindings.el, so this code won't
> get them all.)
>   
I will fix these issues in a couple of days.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-09  8:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-06-24 14:09 Patch to remove minor modes in tutorial Lennart Borgman
2006-06-25 15:34 ` Richard Stallman
2006-06-25 21:27   ` Lennart Borgman
2006-06-26 11:33     ` Richard Stallman
2006-06-26 13:48       ` Lennart Borgman
2006-06-26 16:31         ` Kevin Rodgers
2006-06-26 16:45           ` Lennart Borgman
2006-06-27 15:44             ` Kevin Rodgers
2006-06-27 16:41               ` Lennart Borgman
2006-06-28 17:25               ` Richard Stallman
2006-06-29  8:41                 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-06-29 12:07                   ` Mathias Dahl
2006-06-29 12:27                     ` David Kastrup
2006-06-30 11:06                       ` Richard Stallman
2006-06-29 17:57                   ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-01  0:38                     ` Lennart Borgman
2006-07-01 23:55                       ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-02  8:54                         ` Lennart Borgman
2006-07-02 22:30                           ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-07  0:01                             ` Lennart Borgman
2006-07-07 19:31                               ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-08  3:14                               ` Giorgos Keramidas
2006-07-08 20:57                               ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-09  8:44                                 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2006-07-17 16:12                                 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-07-17 17:32                                   ` Lennart Borgman
2006-07-24 14:42                                     ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-30 20:38                                       ` Lennart Borgman
2006-06-27 16:14         ` Richard Stallman

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