From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Should not tutorial always use the default global map? Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 23:56:50 +0100 Message-ID: <858xurutsd.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <439B82F8.4090207@student.lu.se> <87wticz1zz.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> <85pso328gr.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <439CA2B9.6060308@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134341928 11827 80.91.229.2 (11 Dec 2005 22:58:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 22:58:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , belanger@truman.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 11 23:58:46 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ela7j-00006v-Ep for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Dec 2005 23:56:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ela8B-0005wc-T8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:57:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ela7q-0005ur-SF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:57:02 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ela7p-0005tu-N8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:57:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ela7p-0005tb-Eo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:57:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Ela9Q-0008KD-A2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:58:41 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Ela6J-0007AH-2y; Sun, 11 Dec 2005 17:55:27 -0500 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 3B7511C4CCE5; Sun, 11 Dec 2005 23:56:50 +0100 (CET) Original-To: Lennart Borgman In-Reply-To: <439CA2B9.6060308@student.lu.se> (Lennart Borgman's message of "Sun, 11 Dec 2005 23:05:45 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:47484 Archived-At: Lennart Borgman 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