From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Carson Chittom <carson@wistly.net>
Cc: 15095@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15095: 24.2; mail items in Tools menu confusing to new users
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 05:44:59 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8338qbpt90.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ob90uk62.fsf@abbey.wistly.net>
> From: Carson Chittom <carson@wistly.net>
> Cc: 15095@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 14:49:57 -0500
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Another issue that might be confusing here is that you can start mail
> > composition and send it without reading any email before that. That's
> > why there are 2 menu items instead of one.
>
> I agree (of course) that that's what's going on and why there are
> currently two menu items. My contention, though, is that the kind of
> people who are apt to be confused are the same people who don't want to,
> or rather don't think to, send mail without going to the mail function.
> Put another way, "Send a mail message while in the text editing mode"
> sounds strange unless you already know how Emacs handles sending mail,
I'm guessing everyone is nowadays aware of a function in a word
processor that sends the current document via email. So I think you
are wrong here.
> Incidentally, I didn't remember what came up, so I just tried (via
> emacs -Q and then going through Rmail) to send a message like a new user
> would. Emacs (presumably message.el) just prompts me to select "mail
> client," "transport," or "smtp" to send my message; and there is no
> indication that I've left Rmail.
The indication is in the mode line, as usual in Emacs. After all,
that's how you know you are in Rmail, right?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-15 2:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-14 16:48 bug#15095: 24.2; mail items in Tools menu confusing to new users Carson Chittom
2013-08-14 18:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-14 19:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-08-14 20:22 ` Drew Adams
2013-08-16 6:51 ` Glenn Morris
2013-08-14 19:49 ` Carson Chittom
2013-08-15 2:44 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-08-15 12:02 ` Carson Chittom
2013-08-15 15:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-15 17:23 ` Carson Chittom
2013-08-15 17:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-08-15 20:42 ` Stefan Monnier
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