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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, "Kim F. Storm" <storm@cua.dk>
Subject: Re: Patch to remove minor modes in tutorial
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:27:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85lkrg5eqq.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7dbe73ed0606290507g69c87b0cm96ef882d2f52e21d@mail.gmail.com> (Mathias Dahl's message of "Thu, 29 Jun 2006 14:07:56 +0200")

"Mathias Dahl" <mathias.dahl@gmail.com> writes:

>> 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.

We could recommend to start a session with emacs -q if one suspects
stuff in the tutorial to fail because of customizations.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-29 12:27 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 [this message]
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
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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