From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Suggestion: minor change to TUTORIAL(.*)
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:55:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uac43kf9l.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EIENLHALHGIMHGDOLMIMKENCCLAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>
> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 22:06:55 -0700
>
> Your physical key "Page Down" is
> referred to by Emacs (in both the manual and the UI messages and *Help*) by
> the logical-key name `<next>', which has no spaces.
info.texi uses "PageDown".
> > Is the following hard to understand?
> >
> > `M-x t e x t SPC m o d e RET'
>
> It's very hard to read, especially with longer commands.
>
> There are relatively few instructions to type keys in the manuals, and the
> above, fictitious example (not from a manual) is much longer than any I have
> seen in the manual - about twice as long. So the length problem you cite
> does not seem to be a problem in practice.
Every time you see @kbd{whatever} in the manual means "type
whatever". Here's a random example:
There is a spiffy customize interface, which may be reached by typing
@kbd{M-x customize-option erc-modules @key{RET}}.
Imagine having everything inside @kbd written with spaces between the
letters!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-10 21:55 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
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 [this message]
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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