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Re: Suggestion: minor change to TUTORIAL(.*)
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Suggestion: minor change to TUTORIAL(.*) |
Date: |
Tue, 10 Oct 2006 23:55:02 +0200 |
> From: "Drew Adams" <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 22:06:55 -0700
>
> Your physical key "Page Down" is
> referred to by Emacs (in both the manual and the UI messages and *Help*) by
> the logical-key name `<next>', which has no spaces.
info.texi uses "PageDown".
> > Is the following hard to understand?
> >
> > `M-x t e x t SPC m o d e RET'
>
> It's very hard to read, especially with longer commands.
>
> There are relatively few instructions to type keys in the manuals, and the
> above, fictitious example (not from a manual) is much longer than any I have
> seen in the manual - about twice as long. So the length problem you cite
> does not seem to be a problem in practice.
Every time you see @kbd{whatever} in the manual means "type
whatever". Here's a random example:
There is a spiffy customize interface, which may be reached by typing
@kbd{M-x customize-option erc-modules @key{RET}}.
Imagine having everything inside @kbd written with spaces between the
letters!
- Re: Suggestion: minor change to TUTORIAL(.*), (continued)
- Re: Suggestion: minor change to TUTORIAL(.*), Richard Stallman, 2006/10/09
- RE: Suggestion: minor change to TUTORIAL(.*), Drew Adams, 2006/10/09
- Re: Suggestion: minor change to TUTORIAL(.*), Lennart Borgman, 2006/10/09
- RE: Suggestion: minor change to TUTORIAL(.*), Drew Adams, 2006/10/09
- Re: Suggestion: minor change to TUTORIAL(.*), Stefan Monnier, 2006/10/09
- RE: Suggestion: minor change to TUTORIAL(.*), Drew Adams, 2006/10/10
- Re: Suggestion: minor change to TUTORIAL(.*), Eli Zaretskii, 2006/10/10
- RE: Suggestion: minor change to TUTORIAL(.*), Drew Adams, 2006/10/10
- RE: Suggestion: minor change to TUTORIAL(.*), Drew Adams, 2006/10/10
- Re: Suggestion: minor change to TUTORIAL(.*), Richard Stallman, 2006/10/10
- Re: Suggestion: minor change to TUTORIAL(.*),
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Suggestion: minor change to TUTORIAL(.*), Robert J. Chassell, 2006/10/10
- Re: Suggestion: minor change to TUTORIAL(.*), Robert J. Chassell, 2006/10/10
- Re: Suggestion: minor change to TUTORIAL(.*), Richard Stallman, 2006/10/07
- Re: Suggestion: minor change to TUTORIAL(.*), David Kastrup, 2006/10/07
- Re: Suggestion: minor change to TUTORIAL(.*), Richard Stallman, 2006/10/07