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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:

> So I think we should at most add a footnote saying something about the 
> possibility of remapped keys, and that the tutorial assumes that they 
> aren't.  Anything else will cause more confusion than there might be now.

That's right.  When we're talking about novices, we should assume
that they didn't change anything, as they don't know how to do that.

If somebody has moved their ctrl key to be somewhere else, he will
understand what it means to hit the ctrl key nevertheless.

kai
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