Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 4/15/05, Marcelo Toledo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> For a newbie user the arch tag and the local variables will be something >> that he doesn't know about. I don't think that only this will fix the >> problem of having not know things in the buffer. If we're going to think >> about it I think we need to think about a convention and a global >> solution. > > Is having things a newbie "doesn't know about" in the file actually > harmful (especially considering, it's more or less just a text file, > and this funny stuff is at the end)? > > Maybe it's actually _good_, in that it might might peak their > curiousity, and make them aware (if often only peripherally) of a > feature they might not have thought about otherwise.
I agree with you when it comes to local variables. They must seem strange to a new user. But someone reading the tutorial wants to learn about Emacs, so exposure to local variables is a good thing. Arch-tag lines seem a bit too far off-topic to me, though. (But I don't think they are very harmful.) Lute. _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel
