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Re: Should not tutorial always use the default global map?


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Should not tutorial always use the default global map?
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2005 23:56:50 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:

> If we perhaps would just for this time let him/her go away and as an
> example for humankind be more friendly we could for example add this
> two lines at the end of `help-with-tutorial':
>
>     (make-local-variable 'emulation-mode-map-alists)
>     (setq emulation-mode-map-alists nil)
>
> This would let the tutorial work just as it is supposed to do. We
> could also add a line at the top explaining this. Anyone more than me
> for this peaceful solution?

There is no point in a tutorial that behaves differently from the rest
of the editor.  People want to learn how to use Emacs, not how to walk
through the tutorial.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum




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