From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Suggestion: minor change to TUTORIAL(.*)
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 02:34:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <452AEA9E.1050709@student.lu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EIENLHALHGIMHGDOLMIMAENACLAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>
Drew Adams wrote:
> Richard Stallman wrote:
> > | >> Type M-x text mode<Return>.
> > `----
> > "-" missing here.
> >
> > That is correct. The user should type a space.
>
> Isn't the conventional way to display that:
>
> Type `M-x text SPC mode RET'.
>
>
> I would say it should be `M-x t e x t SPC m o d e RET'.
>
> Neither `text' nor `mode' is a key name. These are instructions for typing a
> key sequence; this is not the name of a key sequence that includes keys
> named `text' and `mode'.
>
>
But I would guess that most users would understand `M-x text-mode RET'
(which I prefer) or `M-x text mode RET' much more easily.
Logical thinking is not at the beginning. You are looking for an
overview then.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-10 0:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-07 6:36 Suggestion: minor change to TUTORIAL(.*) CHENG Gao
2006-10-07 6:44 ` CHENG Gao
2006-10-07 7:07 ` CHENG Gao
2006-10-07 7:33 ` CHENG Gao
2006-10-07 13:15 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-10-08 3:30 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-09 15:46 ` Kevin Rodgers
2006-10-09 21:42 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-10 0:16 ` Drew Adams
2006-10-10 0:34 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2006-10-10 1:27 ` Drew Adams
2006-10-10 3:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2006-10-10 5:07 ` Drew Adams
2006-10-10 4:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-10 5:06 ` Drew Adams
2006-10-10 6:58 ` Drew Adams
2006-10-10 16:47 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-10 21:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-10-10 10:54 ` Robert J. Chassell
2006-10-10 11:03 ` Robert J. Chassell
2006-10-08 3:30 ` Richard Stallman
2006-10-07 7:32 ` David Kastrup
2006-10-07 7:40 ` CHENG Gao
2006-10-07 7:44 ` CHENG Gao
2006-10-08 3:30 ` Richard Stallman
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