From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simon Pugnet Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Propose to add setup-wizard.el to ELPA Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2022 15:46:19 +0000 Message-ID: <87y23yta2f.fsf@polaris64.net> Reply-To: Simon Pugnet Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3340"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: Yuan Fu , Emacs developers To: Philip Kaludercic Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 02 19:11:33 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1n45KO-0000jW-Nm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2022 19:11:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58898 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n45KN-0004lQ-4x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2022 13:11:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:52804) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n4349-00062O-FL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2022 10:46:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-0301.mail-europe.com ([188.165.51.139]:35092) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1n4346-0006WQ-44 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Jan 2022 10:46:37 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=polaris64.net; s=protonmail2; t=1641138382; bh=xLnPRs0C6GkEXL6qidsCOHIiu52X1Rf6jrLz5NH7Zgg=; h=Date:To:From:Cc:Reply-To:Subject:Message-ID:From:To:Cc; b=BDJ33GCc4mgyCpzhQz0ktrmsQVWx+GfOtTIr+hJ9guV+sbyUEy4tI286CcHWEx3gN zdtXx18QjbBF6DgFLeMNrP11eVzF6qpPc8ATFCZMX51Jy5Pv0K/3C2K8p9DyqstEat Ih4y4+woS5zq/XzDaJPCd6T3U1pUN2k0hy/nAytyDbaSjVYLP9XONfd+lD92MvWpxs rCDzcgZJaVZxAG2vp3vHtd/CsILhIwWsTDcgxLaqYHpklGtnB3pC4Hd66Z1NLvlVqQ aCbFGa6Agkd7are3R8La3zW9s+k2/cobl3nIuctIFOtQvM6tz72eVew6kpLEWeX5RU lC8A3rMBO1hOw== Received-SPF: pass client-ip=188.165.51.139; envelope-from=simon@polaris64.net; helo=mail-0301.mail-europe.com X-Spam_score_int: -1 X-Spam_score: -0.2 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (-0.2 / 5.0 requ) DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 02 Jan 2022 13:10:33 -0500 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:283941 Archived-At: Philip Kaludercic writes: > I am not sure if I brought this up last time, but how difficult do you > think it would be to generalise this into a "wizard.el" package, that > could be used by any package to define an interactive configuration > wizard? I really like this idea! If the wizard could provide a common interface (e.g. a "wizard-builder") that's easy to use and is presented using the same interface as the main wizard then I think that could be a very nice way of helping newcomers to certain packages. For example, as well as giving configuration instructions in the package's README, the package author could include their own wizard and say something like "For interactive configuration, just evaluate (invoke-wizard 'some-package) after loading the package." One could argue that this is pretty close to just launching customize-group for the package and limiting the options to only the most important. However Yuan's wizard provides a more newcomer-friendly and interactive interface (e.g. changing the theme immediately once it is selected) so I think it is worthwhile keeping the wizard UI and customize UI separate in this case. P.S., I also have an interest in the idea of an Emacs set-up wizard, and I've written about this before: https://blog.polaris64.net/post/could-emacs-have-a-set-up-wizard/