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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Patch to remove minor modes in tutorial
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:33:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1FupLU-00054G-9Z@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <449EFFBB.80508@student.lu.se> (message from Lennart Borgman on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 23:27:23 +0200)

    Some minor modes have no keybindings so they can not disturb the 
    tutorial (recentf-mode for example). Well, at least I hope they can not. 
    I think this is very important!

I think it is safer to turn them all off, aside from a specific
list of exceptions.

    > Why ask?  Why not just do it?
    >   
    To make the user aware of that Emacs will work differently in the 
    tutorial buffer than in other buffer (if the user answers Y).

I agree it is useful to do that, but I think that asking a question
will be confusing in a different way, since it will suggest that it is
reasonable to answer N.  Displaying a message which ends in "Type
SPACE to proceed" is a better way to make sure the user notices the
message.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-06-26 11:33 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 [this message]
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
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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