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

[Chong Yidong]

address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:

>> 1. There's no call for a special tutorial--tab-map to tab between
>>    warning messages.  Why bother?
>
> Seems superfluous to me too.  The tutorial shouldn't bind any keys
> to have non-standard behavior!

I removed it.

>> 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.
>
> Indeed.  It should only give each warning once ... and just have
> a tool-tip on other occurrences.

I implemented this, too.

>> 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.
>
> I was confused at first, but I don't know what is best.

I added a prompt to ask if the user wants to save the tutorial state.
That should be sufficient.