Re: A better UI than perform-replace

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
> Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2015 02:42:16 +0200
> Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>,
> 	Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>, Oleh Krehel <ohwoeowho@gmail.com>,
> 	John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>
> 
> > And as David points out, even if you do not check `C-h k M-%',
> > the prompt itself tells you, over and over, that you can
> > "press `?' for help".  How someone could claim that the
> > behavior is difficult to discover is beyond me.  (But people
> > are different.)
> 
> If "press `?' for help" is intended for newbies, why do
> we display it all the time?

FWIW, this "newbie" takes the advantage of '?' all the time, at least
with commands I don't use frequently enough to have their options
burnt into my muscle memory.

Emacs's self-documentation features are not just for newbies, they are
for everyone.