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Re: Suggestion: minor change to TUTORIAL(.*)


From: Lennart Borgman
Subject: Re: Suggestion: minor change to TUTORIAL(.*)
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 02:34:38 +0200
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Drew Adams wrote:
    Richard Stallman wrote:
    >     | >> Type M-x text mode<Return>.
    >     `----
    >     "-" missing here.
    >
    > That is correct.  The user should type a space.

    Isn't the conventional way to display that:

    Type `M-x text SPC mode RET'.


I would say it should be `M-x t e x t SPC m o d e RET'.

Neither `text' nor `mode' is a key name. These are instructions for typing a
key sequence; this is not the name of a key sequence that includes keys
named `text' and `mode'.


But I would guess that most users would understand `M-x text-mode RET' (which I prefer) or `M-x text mode RET' much more easily.

Logical thinking is not at the beginning. You are looking for an overview then.




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