Re: Request to distribute Casual packages on NonGNU ELPA

[Charles Choi <kickingvegas@gmail.com>]

Philip -

Appreciate your clarifications. 

With regards to your comment on foundational questions, as best as I understand it, `quick-help` offers some level of control over display layout but is fundamentally a tool to provide informational help about a mode's bindings (typically default) to its commands. In contrast, Transient menus are designed to be a direct interface to the commands. Casual leverages the Transient library to create a keyboard-driven menu interface to this effect.

For Casual package users, a design intent of the Casual menus is to be the _primary_ means of accessing a mode's commands, as opposed to the current practice of using keybindings or the mini-buffer prompt as a primary interface. It is not a design intent of Casual to help on-board users to the existing default bindings of a mode, nor to cater to users who already know them for which Casual is not their intended audience.

In my view, tools such as `quick-help` and `which-key` reinforce keybindings and mini-buffer prompts as the primary user interface to a mode's commands. Casual is an attempt to offer an alternate primary interface, in this case, hand-crafted keyboard-driven menus. This said, Casual has no design intent to be a mutually exclusive user interface. All existing user interfaces to commands (keybinding, mini-buffer prompt, mouse menus) are still available. 



Regards -

Charles

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