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Re: other serious problems with non-English tutorials


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: other serious problems with non-English tutorials
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 20:43:11 +0300

> From: Chong Yidong <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 12:22:25 -0400
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> Werner LEMBERG <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> >   2. A language specific tutorial is now loaded into a buffer only; it
> >      is no longer associated with a real file.  This invalidates big
> >      parts of the translated tutorials; from a didactic point of view
> >      it's a bad idea also IMHO.
> 
> I don't understand the problem.  The reason we put the tutorial in a
> buffer is so that the reader can edit the buffer freely.

AFAICS, the tutorial's buffer is not associated with a file
(i.e. buffer-file-name evaluates to nil) at least since Emacs 22.1.
It wasn't in Emacs 21.4, so the change was done somewhere in between.
But that was a long time ago, nit just now.




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