From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: xemacs-beta@xemacs.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs setup assistants
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 20:12:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2719-Fri21May2004201241+0300-eliz@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4nd64y29zc.fsf@lifelogs.com> (message from Ted Zlatanov on Thu, 20 May 2004 15:07:35 -0400)
> From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
> Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 15:07:35 -0400
>
> You're thinking like a programmer and/or power user :)
>
> Normal users rarely appreciate this sort of view of the wizard
> sequence.
Then what _do_ they prefer?
> The point is, give the user the illusion of a straight decision line
> that they can use back and forth consistently.
I agree, but where did my suggestion deviate from this principle?
> > Other buttons or links could lead to advanced customization options
> > and in-depth descriptions for those who want that.
>
> That's a good idea, but it should be clearly separated from the
> regular assistant. Maybe @assistantadvanced tags should be used to
> surround such options, and the user can show or hide them.
A button labeled "Advanced" should be good enough.
> I absolutely agree Customize could be useful. So far in my
> experiments to find a useful syntax, I have been doing something like
> this:
>
> @ifassistant
If we go for Texinfo-like syntax, I'd suggest to choose one that will
not require changes in the Texinfo language and its existing parsers.
Here's one possibility to do that:
@ignore @c assistant
@node Hello, choose a server
@variable server :string "default.server.com"
@text
You can define the server: @variable{server}
@end text
....
@end ignore @c end assistant
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Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-18 20:55 Emacs setup assistants Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2004-05-19 6:34 ` David Kastrup
2004-05-19 7:32 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2004-05-19 10:31 ` David Kastrup
2004-05-19 15:29 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-05-19 20:49 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-05-19 21:35 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2004-05-20 13:17 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-20 17:31 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-05-21 14:12 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-21 17:42 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-05-21 19:09 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2004-05-21 18:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-22 21:44 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-19 8:18 ` Per Abrahamsen
2004-05-19 9:59 ` Juri Linkov
2004-05-20 7:25 ` David Kastrup
2004-05-20 9:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-20 10:57 ` David Kastrup
2004-05-20 13:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-20 17:00 ` David Kastrup
2004-05-20 18:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-20 19:05 ` Jon Ericson
2004-05-20 19:07 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-05-21 18:12 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2004-05-21 18:04 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-05-22 11:09 ` Per Abrahamsen
2004-05-24 14:10 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-05-24 19:46 ` David Kastrup
2004-05-25 18:16 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-05-25 20:59 ` Juri Linkov
2004-05-25 22:57 ` A.J. Rossini
2004-05-25 23:19 ` Miles Bader
2004-05-26 7:11 ` David Kastrup
2004-05-26 14:04 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-05-27 8:50 ` David Kastrup
2004-05-26 14:06 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-05-26 22:14 ` Juri Linkov
2004-05-26 18:57 ` Per Abrahamsen
2004-05-26 10:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-26 13:59 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-05-27 23:54 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-26 15:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-27 15:07 ` Ted Zlatanov
2004-05-27 16:59 ` René Kyllingstad
2004-05-27 16:59 ` René Kyllingstad
2004-05-22 13:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-20 20:57 ` David Kastrup
2004-05-21 17:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-22 11:01 ` Per Abrahamsen
2004-05-21 14:11 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-29 1:26 ` David A. Cobb
2004-05-30 8:15 ` Per Abrahamsen
2004-05-20 10:00 ` Per Abrahamsen
2004-05-19 6:43 ` David Kastrup
2004-05-19 13:45 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-19 15:04 ` David Kastrup
2004-05-19 20:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-19 16:41 ` Ted Zlatanov
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2004-05-26 11:48 Berndl, Klaus
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