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Re: Possible change to startup.el


From: Miles Bader
Subject: Re: Possible change to startup.el
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:05:46 +0900

On Mar 31, 2005 8:37 PM, Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> wrote:
>    It seem better to do as I suggested earlier, and structure it more as
>    a `title' in the actual tutorial file (that is, simply the words
>    "Emacs Tutorial" or equivalent, on a line by themselves, possibly
>    centered on the first line, followed by a blank line).
> 
> this is the same as rms' design, except that TITLE is delimited by first
> newline instead of first period.

Rms can obviously correct me if I'm wrong, but I think you're taking
his words much too literally; using a period is much more clumsy[*]
than simply using a separate line and calling it a "title" in the
text.

[*] and wrong in some languages; using sentence movement operators
would be better

-Miles
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