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Re: tutorial: "The key <ESC> has been rebound, but you can use instead"


From: Chong Yidong
Subject: Re: tutorial: "The key <ESC> has been rebound, but you can use instead"
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:05:07 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux)

>> M-: (global-set-key (kbd "ESC") 'ding) RET
>> <f1> t
>>
>> The tutorial says:
>>
>> ,----
>> |  M-<chr>  means hold the META or EDIT or ALT key down while typing <chr>.
>> |      If there is no META, EDIT or ALT key, instead press and release the
>> |      ESC key and then type <chr>.  We write <ESC> for the ESC key.
>> | ** The key <ESC> has been rebound, but you can use instead [More
>> | information] **
>> `----

This should already be fixed in the latest CVS.

>> Additionally, as the warning line is longer than 80 characters it's
>> quite disturbing.

I think [More information] can be replaced with [More].

>> BTW, if you do the same with a German language environment, the German
>> tutorial is interrupted by lines in English.  Also the "NOTICE" is in
>> English.  I'm not sure if these recent changes are a good idea for the
>> non-English tutorials, given the fact that finding volunteers for the
>> simple translation tasks listed in FOR-RELEASE (refcards, first line
>> of the tutorial) is difficult.
>
> It is not good to give information in another language, but it seemed
> better than giving no information at all.

I think it's better to suppress the information if no translations can
be found (which would be like Emacs 21, so nothing is lost).





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