From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [ELPA] New package: transient Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 22:52:24 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87368npxw4.fsf@bernoul.li> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="7570"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: jonas@bernoul.li, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Phil Sainty Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri May 01 04:53:27 2020 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 1jULnp-0001qW-9i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 01 May 2020 04:53:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36844 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jULno-0001Wj-87 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2020 22:53:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46476) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jULms-0000E8-Gu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Apr 2020 22:52:26 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:35107) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1jULmr-0008Pn-Qw; Thu, 30 Apr 2020 22:52:25 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1jULmq-00088N-NM; Thu, 30 Apr 2020 22:52:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Phil Sainty on Thu, 30 Apr 2020 22:50:40 +1200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:248288 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Starting from minute 3:00 you will regularly see Transient buffers in > use, popping up at the bottom of the frame, showing menus of commands > and the key sequences which invoke them. Thanks, but I can't follow that. Things flash on the screen, showing lots of text I can hardly see (it is small print), and I have no idea what it is doing or why. I can't learn the details of using a package that way. Anyway, the details are not what I need to learn. What I want to understand is the basic purpose and use of Transient. Would someone like to tell me in 10 lines whet job Transient does, and why it is useful? -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)