Re: Patch to remove minor modes in tutorial

[Richard Stallman]

    Suppose you get a .emacs from someone, which changes some key bindings.

It is a bad thing to start off a new user with a .emacs file that
changes key bindings.  Regardless of what documentation the user
learns from, it will be wrong; but it's worse than that.  Users should
decide for themselves whether to change key bindings.

    Maybe it be better to simply issue a warning at the start of the
    tutorial if "affecting" minor modes are enabled -- something like
    this:

      NOTE:  This instance of Emacs has local customizations which may
      cause some instructions in the tutorial to fail.  If that happens,
      review the local customizations in the file ~/.emacs.

You have convinced me.