Re: tutorial: "The key <ESC> has been rebound, but you can use instead"

[Reiner Steib]

On Tue, Nov 21 2006, Chong Yidong wrote:
> Lennart Borgman wrote:
>> Reiner Steib wrote:
[...]

> This should already be fixed in the latest CVS.

I had updated my sources less than 2 hours before my report (revision
1.6 of tutorial.el).

>>> Additionally, as the warning line is longer than 80 characters it's
>>> quite disturbing.
>
> I think [More information] can be replaced with [More].

ACK

In my current session, I get ("C-x" in red), despite that I'm not
aware of any C-x rebindings in my setup (no CUA, no viper, ...).

,----
| Important note: to end the Emacs session, type C-x C-c.  (Two characters.)
| ** The key C-x has been rebound, but you can use  instead [More information] 
**
| The characters ">>" at the left margin indicate directions for you to
| try using a command.  For instance:
`----

>>> BTW, if you do the same with a German language environment, the German
>>> tutorial is interrupted by lines in English.  Also the "NOTICE" is in
>>> English.  I'm not sure if these recent changes are a good idea for the
>>> non-English tutorials, given the fact that finding volunteers for the
>>> simple translation tasks listed in FOR-RELEASE (refcards, first line
>>> of the tutorial) is difficult.
>>
>> It is not good to give information in another language, but it seemed
>> better than giving no information at all.
>
> I think it's better to suppress the information if no translations can
> be found (which would be like Emacs 21, so nothing is lost).

Maybe inserting the warnings only at the top would be nicer (also in
the English version).  Maybe _not_ modifying the TUTORIAL buffer at
all, but display the warning as a splash screen before entering the
tutorial might be an improvement.

Bye, Reiner.
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