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Subject: Re: help-fns.el patch for commands to describe options and commands
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    > I don't think this is is going to be useful for newbies.  They won't
    > learn these commands.

    Reason?  Why not useful?  Why not learnable?

Because there are limits to how much a person can learn.  Newbies to
Emacs are overloaded already.  They see lots of commands and learn
only a few of them.  Offering them one more thing to learn won't do
any good -- they can't learn MORE.