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

[Lennart Borgman]

Reiner Steib wrote:
> `M-x report-emacs-bug' wrote:
>
> > Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug
> > and the precise symptoms of the bug:
>
> $ emacs -Q
>
> M-: (global-set-key (kbd "ESC") 'ding) RET
> <f1> t
>
> The tutorial says:
>
> ,----
> |  M-<chr>  means hold the META or EDIT or ALT key down while typing <chr>.
> |         If there is no META, EDIT or ALT key, instead press and release the
> |         ESC key and then type <chr>.  We write <ESC> for the ESC key.
> | ** The key <ESC> has been rebound, but you can use  instead [More 
> information] **
> `----
>
> I fail to understand what "but you can use  instead" means.
> Additionally, as the warning line is longer than 80 characters it's
> quite disturbing.

This example is a hard case ;-) I was going to suggest something like

** The key <ESC> has been rebound. You can use M-x ESC-prefix instead 
[More] **

instead, but M-x ESC-prefix actually does not work at all, at least not 
for me. The message is shorter and gives more info - it solves half of 
the problem. Here it is useless however.

It looks like a very special case to me. Maybe it should be taken care 
of as such?


> 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.

There is a list of lang-strings. Currently it fallbacks to English if 
there is no string for the used language. It could easily be changed to 
give no information at all instead.