From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mathias Dahl" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Patch to remove minor modes in tutorial Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:07:56 +0200 Message-ID: <7dbe73ed0606290507g69c87b0cm96ef882d2f52e21d@mail.gmail.com> References: <449D4787.6030809@student.lu.se> <449EFFBB.80508@student.lu.se> <449FE5AB.1080906@student.lu.se> <44A00F46.3010000@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151583101 22229 80.91.229.2 (29 Jun 2006 12:11:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:11:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kevin Rodgers , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 29 14:11:38 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FvvMn-0003sX-Oi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:11:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FvvMn-0007fr-4S for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:11:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FvvJQ-00051a-Nx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:08:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FvvJO-0004zS-Dd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:08:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FvvJO-0004zJ-1L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:07:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.233.182.189] (helo=nf-out-0910.google.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FvvVv-0000Mp-Lz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 08:20:55 -0400 Original-Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id p77so55019nfc for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 05:07:56 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=XKhcJ5NIVd/SCBpapVqq/Ea8PWfOXSLyjqiH9+vs0wKSDE8zLoVn7rl0Bf7E40THSFEsYQXQJjxdZaZeZ2qxkBGj1R/HDUh0SI6p/hI7JGldkvRbKD/RGTJpzQratxRTeIBZHdCfiJJImj+wwGe+6B+qJswpwGq8i8eesOaK62M= Original-Received: by 10.48.43.11 with SMTP id q11mr1543729nfq; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 05:07:56 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.48.248.13 with HTTP; Thu, 29 Jun 2006 05:07:56 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: "Kim F. Storm" In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:56278 Archived-At: > In general, there is a problem with the tutorial and minor-modes: > ... > Maybe it be better to simply issue a warning at the start of the > tutorial if "affecting" minor modes are enabled -- something like > this: > > NOTE: This instance of Emacs has local customizations which may > cause some instructions in the tutorial to fail. If that happens, > review the local customizations in the file ~/.emacs. I like this idea. It seems we can never protect the user from all problems in this area so the best thing is to inform him about that.