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

[Chong Yidong]

"Kim F. Storm" <address@hidden> writes:

> emacs -Q
> (global-set-key "\C-b" 'ignore)
> C-h C-t
>
>
> It now contains this misplaced advice (with C-b in read):
>
>       C-x C-b   List buffers
> ** The key C-b has been rebound, but you can use <left> instead [More 
> information] **
>
>
> (notice also that the info line is >80 chars long).

I checked in a fix.

By the way, there are some pretty dubious features in the new
tutorial.  I think we should revisit them before the release.

1. There's no call for a special tutorial--tab-map to tab between
   warning messages.  Why bother?

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.

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