From: Robert Weiner <rsw@gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
Cc: Mats Lidell <mats.lidell@cag.se>, emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Subject: Call for testers for GNU Hyperbole 5.12, a large, useful Emacs package
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2016 18:20:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+OMD9gxya7Ux8cra_34i4Emkh5QX-meXLMa_YKmtfOemN0-6Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f407a74e-2e10-8d77-5364-f086e4b33217@yandex.ru>
On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 5:44 PM, Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> wrote:
> On 06/19/2016 11:58 PM, Robert Weiner wrote:
>
>> People really like to talk abstractly here, which is fun, but doesn't
>> help move things forward too far when you could just as easily describe
>> exactly what you mean.
>
>
> And from my side, the demo wasn't abstract enough: it described some things
> at a lower level, like press this, push that, instead of giving a brief
> overview of that all this stuff is about, and why I would want to push
> buttons.
Fair enough. The HY-ABOUT file available on {C-h h d a} tells you
what it is all about and should
be mentioned in the HY-README file.
> A button that computes a factorial is not particularly convincing,
> I could do that just as easily via an interactive function.
True. You probably want {C-h h d t} which lets you browse all of the
implicit button types and action types. That shows you a lot of built
in behavior but would overwhelm most people for whom the demo is
meant. You are definitely not a typical user (that's a compliment).
>
>> Did you find the demo useful or not? Did you
>> like that it seemed more of a tutorial or not?
>
>
> Somewhat, and no. It was overly long as a demo, it gave me a taste of
> understanding of what buttons mean in Hyperbole, but not why I would want to
> use them, as opposed to the regular tools (interactive functions and key
> bindings) that are already available in Emacs. Or maybe I was expecting too
> much.
That is good feedback. We will use it as we update the demo
considering all of the new capabilities in Emacs since Hyperbole was
last published.
>
> Yes, buttons that link to an arbitrary files or directories, or that launch
> any command look neat, but it's not very obvious what kind of new and
> amazing workflows they allow, if any.
That's like asking what workflow Lisp can enable. Hyperbole is a
toolkit, like Emacs, that you mold to your needs. It has a lot of
built-in behavior but is not limited by this.
>
>> There is a 150 page manual with extensive
>> cross-references for more detail but a few more sections are yet to be
>> written.
>
>
> I hope you can forgive if I'm not in any hurry to spend time on that.
You either want depth or a taste. I am pointing you to more resources for both.
>
>> A demo is when you expend minimal effort and mostly observe the
>> niceties of a program/package/website/etc, in a condensed form.
>>
>>
>> Hyperbole is highly interactive, so we want people to interact with it.
>
>
> "Here are lots of buttons, click on them" would be fine. Maybe ease on on
> the terminology. You can tell the user to press S-mouse-2 without
> introducing the term "Action Key", etc.
If you get into Hyperbole more, you will certainly understand why we
name that key and don't use a specific mouse button name much.
>
> And halfway through, the buttons stop, and the "demo" starts describing the
> normal Emacs features (maybe with some minor twists). Doesn't sound like
> demo material.
I'll look at that.
>
>> I don't know want ACME is. But what would you be switching from?
>
>
> Switching from Emacs. Acme is/was a Plan 9 editor:
Why would you switch from Emacs to use Hyperbole? They complement
each other. And you can't be saying you were looking at switching
from Acme to Emacs with Hyperbole.
>
> http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/acme/
>
>> How
>> else can you interactively create buttons with elisp actions in Emacs?
>
>
> Never really felt the urge before.
In part because you couldn't maybe. I guess people didn't create many
hyperbuttons before the web either but look at them now.
Yet, that is still a hard process. With Hyperbole, it is easy.
>
>> - "Depress the Action Key somewhere within this paragraph
>> and while holding it down, depress the Assist Key." doesn't lead to
>> the desired effect, or maybe I just understand the instructions.
>>
>>
>> I will check. There was a problem with this but I believe it was fixed
>> in 5.12. You need to be holding down shift-mouse2 and then press
>> shift-mouse3 or vice versa to see help for the first key pressed.
>
>
> That would be "press", not "depress", wouldn't it? Still doesn't work,
> though.
Send us your system specifics so we can possibly replicate the
problem. With Hyperbole, you can do this with {C-h h m c}.
Bob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-19 22:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-15 1:41 Subject: Call for testers for GNU Hyperbole 5.12, a large, useful Emacs package Robert Weiner
2016-06-15 4:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-06-15 4:32 ` Robert Weiner
2016-06-15 13:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-06-15 14:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-06-15 22:02 ` Robert Weiner
2016-06-15 6:28 ` Robert Weiner
2016-06-15 13:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-06-15 13:51 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-06-15 14:05 ` Robert Weiner
2016-06-15 14:15 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-06-15 14:25 ` Robert Weiner
2016-06-15 13:54 ` Robert Weiner
2016-06-15 14:54 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-06-15 15:42 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-06-19 18:39 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-06-19 19:36 ` Robert Weiner
2016-06-19 19:40 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-06-19 19:53 ` Robert Weiner
2016-06-19 20:08 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-06-19 20:15 ` tumashu
2016-06-19 20:24 ` tumashu
2016-06-15 7:20 ` Michael Albinus
2016-06-15 17:25 ` Rasmus
2016-06-15 17:47 ` Robert Weiner
2016-06-15 19:56 ` Tom
2016-06-16 9:20 ` tumashu
2016-06-16 14:02 ` Subject: " Robert Weiner
2016-06-16 15:40 ` raman
2016-06-19 18:24 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-06-19 20:31 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-06-19 20:58 ` Robert Weiner
2016-06-19 21:44 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-06-19 22:20 ` Robert Weiner [this message]
2016-06-19 22:52 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-06-20 14:43 ` Robert Weiner
2016-06-20 21:44 ` Dmitry Gutov
2016-06-20 12:48 ` jpff
2016-06-20 13:16 ` Robert Weiner
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2016-06-15 17:32 Robert Weiner
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