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Re: Broken "C-b remapped to ..." advice in tutorial.


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: Re: Broken "C-b remapped to ..." advice in tutorial.
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 16:02:46 -0500

    2. Displaying one line of warning message for each rebound key
       sequence is really annoying.  We should just highlight them in a
       different face and display the message in a tooltip, and/or when
       the text is clicked on.  After all, there is already a big warning
       message at the top of the tutorial page saying keys have been
       rebound; no need to hammer it in.

I do not really understand what you are proposing here.

We considered many approaches here, and of them, this is the one I
like best.  I am not inclined to change it again.  However, if you give
a clear (not terse) description of an alternative, I'll consider it.

    3. The tutorial-position saving mechanism is very opaque.  When the
       buffer is killed, the current position in the tutorial, without
       prompting the user (it used to save into a directory ~/.emacstut,
       but I moved this into .emacs.d to avoid homedir pollution).
       However, this saving does not occur if the user does C-x C-c or C-x
       C-s.

I agree it should be made to work on C-x C-c.  That should be easy,
right?

There is no need for saving the buffer to do this, though.  If you
kill the buffer, the position will be saved; if not, it need not be saved
because it is still in the buffer.

             This feature is confusing enough that I'd propose removing it
       entirely.

It is useful, and I don't want to remove it.




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