[Top][All Lists]
[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: tutorial: "The key <ESC> has been rebound, but you can use instead"
From: |
Reiner Steib |
Subject: |
Re: tutorial: "The key <ESC> has been rebound, but you can use instead" |
Date: |
Wed, 22 Nov 2006 00:03:36 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.91 (gnu/linux) |
On Tue, Nov 21 2006, Chong Yidong wrote:
> Lennart Borgman wrote:
>> Reiner Steib wrote:
[...]
> This should already be fixed in the latest CVS.
I had updated my sources less than 2 hours before my report (revision
1.6 of tutorial.el).
>>> Additionally, as the warning line is longer than 80 characters it's
>>> quite disturbing.
>
> I think [More information] can be replaced with [More].
ACK
In my current session, I get ("C-x" in red), despite that I'm not
aware of any C-x rebindings in my setup (no CUA, no viper, ...).
,----
| Important note: to end the Emacs session, type C-x C-c. (Two characters.)
| ** The key C-x has been rebound, but you can use instead [More information]
**
| The characters ">>" at the left margin indicate directions for you to
| try using a command. For instance:
`----
>>> 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).
Maybe inserting the warnings only at the top would be nicer (also in
the English version). Maybe _not_ modifying the TUTORIAL buffer at
all, but display the warning as a splash screen before entering the
tutorial might be an improvement.
Bye, Reiner.
--
,,,
(o o)
---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/
- tutorial: "The key <ESC> has been rebound, but you can use instead", Reiner Steib, 2006/11/21
- Re: tutorial: "The key <ESC> has been rebound, but you can use instead", Lennart Borgman, 2006/11/21
- Re: tutorial: "The key <ESC> has been rebound, but you can use instead", Chong Yidong, 2006/11/21
- Re: tutorial: "The key <ESC> has been rebound, but you can use instead",
Reiner Steib <=
- Re: tutorial: "The key <ESC> has been rebound, but you can use instead", Richard Stallman, 2006/11/22