Re: You should not have installed that change!

[Marcelo Toledo]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

> Why did you install the first version of your proposed change, when I
> had already said not to install it, that I wanted it done differently?
>
> Please make and install the corrections that I asked for
> without delay.
>

looks like he noted this and fixed already. Is it installed yet Thien?

>>   From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
>>   Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 01:43:07 -0500
>>
>>   We could make that a general rule: every tutorial translation must
>>   start with a sentence that translates "Emacs tutorial".
>>
>> sorry, i misunderstood this simple sentence and implemented the wrong
>> thing (gotta slow down sometimes and be more careful).  please find
>> below a revised patch that uses the first sentence of the file as the
>> text for the splash screen.  unfortunately, i prematurely committed
>> changes to the actual TUTORIAL files due to concerns that translators
>> might not see the proposed changes.  i think it's best that i stick w/
>> the code and let Marcelo and others handle updates to those files. :-(
>> 
>> thi
>>
>> !                 (with-temp-buffer
>> !                   (insert-file-contents tut nil 0 80)
>> !                   (search-forward ".")
>> !                   (buffer-substring (point-min) (point))))


> I don't want to add a redundant extra line at the front of each
> tutorial file.  Instead, please use the text before the first period.
> That will do the right thing in TUTORIAL.de, TUTORIAL.fr, maybe more.
>
> Those TUTORIAL.* files that don't have the right text before the first
> period should be edited so that they do have the right text
> before the first period.  If the file starts with a longer sentence,
> please get rid of the extra stuff in that sentence.  If the file
> does not start with any such sentence, then please add one.

I will modify the tutorials accordingly with that change.
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