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

[Lennart Borgman]

David Kastrup wrote:

> 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.
The tutorial is a tutorial for using Emacs in its "default mode", not a 
tutorial for Emacs in other ways. So I think there is a point, but you 
have to make it clear for the user.

An alternative to my above proposal is to mention this in the beginning 
of the tutorial and put a note in the buffer if Emacs seems to have 
other keymaps in use.