From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, belanger@truman.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Should not tutorial always use the default global map?
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 23:56:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <858xurutsd.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <439CA2B9.6060308@student.lu.se> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Sun, 11 Dec 2005 23:05:45 +0100")
Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se> writes:
> 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':
>
> (make-local-variable 'emulation-mode-map-alists)
> (setq emulation-mode-map-alists nil)
>
> 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?
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.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-11 22:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-11 1:38 Should not tutorial always use the default global map? Lennart Borgman
2005-12-11 4:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-11 4:33 ` Jay Belanger
2005-12-11 10:11 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-12-11 11:12 ` David Kastrup
2005-12-11 19:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-11 22:05 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-12-11 22:56 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2005-12-11 23:30 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-12-12 5:22 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-11 16:49 ` Richard M. Stallman
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