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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: C-h and TUTORIAL
Date: 28 Jul 2004 18:09:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <x57jsom7v2.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1BpqsC-0004qW-F5@fencepost.gnu.org>

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

>     C-h T can show up in the C-h C-h menu, advertising the existence of
>     language-specific tutorials.  C-u C-h t is less obvious.
> 
> I see.  However, perhaps we should just make C-h t
> always ask for which language.  This would help non-English-speakers
> even more, while the inconvenience to English-speakers would be
> small (since regular users don't frequently run the tutorial).
> Does anyone see a difficulty with this idea?

That the user has not yet learnt at this point of time how to select
an item from a list in the command line?

However, I don't think that the tutorial has anything to say about
that, so it is probably pretty much the same whether the user gets
baffled with it before or after perusing the tutorial.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-28 16:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-26  4:48 C-h and TUTORIAL Werner LEMBERG
2004-07-27 18:18 ` Richard Stallman
2004-07-27 18:49   ` Alan Shutko
2004-07-28 16:01     ` Richard Stallman
2004-07-28 16:09       ` David Kastrup [this message]
2004-07-27 23:13   ` Werner LEMBERG
2004-07-28  7:54     ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2004-07-28 22:10       ` Richard Stallman
2004-07-29  7:43       ` Miles Bader

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