From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: ihs_4664@yahoo.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Patch to remove minor modes in tutorial
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 13:57:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1Fw0m4-00028u-Lj@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3ejx8s6a4.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk> (storm@cua.dk)
Suppose you get a .emacs from someone, which changes some key bindings.
It is a bad thing to start off a new user with a .emacs file that
changes key bindings. Regardless of what documentation the user
learns from, it will be wrong; but it's worse than that. Users should
decide for themselves whether to change key bindings.
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.
You have convinced me.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-29 17:57 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 [this message]
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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