Re: discoverability, better defaults and which-key in Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Howard Melman <hmelman@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2024 15:16:29 -0500
> 
> <tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:
> 
> > On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 09:24:55PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >
> >> Since we are talking about _enabling_ the feature, the
> >> above would mean that veteran users will need to be asked
> >> whether to _disable_ it.  Wouldn't that be an annoyance?
> >
> > For this one it would, yes. An unexpected popup can ruin
> > my day.
> 
> If, like disabling works, it would write to the init and it
> would be a one-time annoyance, I don't think it's a big
> deal.

I tend to think it's a big deal.

But maybe we could look at the result of

  (get 'narrow-to-region 'disabled)

to deduce that if that is nil, we are dealing with a user who is not
new, even if the key-bindings popup is not disabled.  If which-key is
also turned off in "emacs -Q", perhaps that would be good enough?

And I still think that automatically popping up the *Help* buffer
produced by describe-prefix-bindings is simpler and more coherent with
the rest of Emacs than what which-key does.  We could still import
which-key as an optional feature, of course, even if the automatic
popup of describe-prefix-bindings is implemented.