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Subject: Re: The minibuffer vs. Dialog Boxes (Re: Making XEmacs be more up-to-date)
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* Terje Bless writes:
> I do not (not not not!) suggest dumbing down XEmacs! I'm suggesting
> _smarting_ it up! That is, provide more friendly and helpfull
> features for those that need them while staying out of the way of
> those that do not.
Then why change the terminology?  The user gets smarter by reading, like say
reading the Glossary in the Emacs manual.  That way this person who is new
to Emacs will learn things, and become smarter in the process.

-- 
Alfred M. Szmidt