From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: cua-mode and the tutorial
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 17:57:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44EB294C.8060503@student.lu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m364gk3jbb.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk>
Kim F. Storm wrote:
>> A possible solution is perhaps to tell replace C-v in the tutorial
>> with the actual key to use. However that requires rewriting the text
>> since there are also sentences like "do it by holding down the CONTROL
>> key while typing v". (And there are many languages to rewrite.) Maybe
>> that sentence could be removed?
>>
>
> It could. But again there are many languages to consider, and
> this is part of text files, not generated in Lisp.
>
>
>>> It would be much better if you just placed a few yellow lines
>>> near the top with the following wording:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Having less information there is maybe a solution, yes. And using help
>> buffer for details. However I do believe that the tutorial should try
>> to tell the actual key bindings that the user will use. Is not that
>> much easier for those that use CUA mode for example?
>>
>
> But it gives it in the wrong language (except for the English tutorial).
>
> Having just a few lines in English is ok IMO.
>
Or maybe have them in the language choosen in form of some specially
marked text in the text file?
I would like some more feedback from other on your suggestion above
before I proceed.
> I hope so :-) but with cua-mode enabled, many basic things in
> the tutorial could be explained quite differently -- but there
> is no way to do than in >1 languages.
>
I would like pointers to CUA mode att relevant places (but not on too
many places) in the manual.
> I don't really care that much (it's a long time since I needed to run
> the tutorial, and I never got used to the native bindings anyway).
>
I think we might be a bit biased.
> Maybe you could highlight [yellow background] C-v (and similar
> bindings used in the tutorial) if they have non-standard bindings.
> Then users will be alerted to the fact that they don't work as
> expected and they should consult the instructions at the beginning of
> the tutorial! You could even put a tool-tip on them to show the
> actual binding to use instead.
>
I did that in one version. I made links going to the yellow part at the
top. I could put it back.
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Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2006-08-22 13:12 ` cua-mode and the tutorial Kim F. Storm
2006-08-22 13:26 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-08-22 14:30 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-22 15:02 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-08-22 15:57 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2006-08-22 18:17 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-23 4:06 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-23 4:37 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-24 5:20 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-23 7:21 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-08-24 5:20 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-24 7:30 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-08-25 20:25 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-25 22:12 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-08-26 12:22 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-26 12:44 ` David Kastrup
2006-08-27 14:34 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-26 14:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-08-26 15:07 ` Drew Adams
2006-08-26 21:15 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-08-27 14:34 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-27 15:06 ` David Kastrup
2006-08-28 22:09 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-27 21:30 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-08-26 21:14 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-08-28 9:52 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-28 10:07 ` David Kastrup
2006-08-28 11:21 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-08-29 17:18 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-27 8:35 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-28 9:52 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-28 10:17 ` Slawomir Nowaczyk
2006-08-29 17:18 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-29 17:55 ` Drew Adams
2006-08-29 18:13 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-28 22:32 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-08-29 17:18 ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-31 15:10 ` Lennart Borgman
2006-09-21 14:24 ` Kim F. Storm
2006-08-22 14:05 ` Lennart Borgman
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