From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Suggestion: minor change to TUTORIAL(.*) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 02:34:38 +0200 Message-ID: <452AEA9E.1050709@student.lu.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1160441486 1253 80.91.229.2 (10 Oct 2006 00:51:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 00:51:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 10 02:51:16 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GX5aC-0003OX-E5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 02:35:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GX5aB-0001pa-Qs for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 Oct 2006 20:34:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GX5a0-0001oY-Ps for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Oct 2006 20:34:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GX5Zy-0001nm-Vt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Oct 2006 20:34:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GX5Zy-0001nj-Ql for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Oct 2006 20:34:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.98] (helo=pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GX5hd-0007HS-T7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 Oct 2006 20:42:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.218.244) by pne-smtpout1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.076) id 4523CB5700141DF3; Tue, 10 Oct 2006 02:34:39 +0200 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) Original-To: Drew Adams In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:60563 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: > Richard Stallman wrote: > > | >> Type M-x text mode. > > `---- > > "-" 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.