From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Interactive guide for new users Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 18:39:39 +0200 Message-ID: <874knk1ohg.fsf@igel.home> References: <875z8ortot.fsf@gkayaalp.com> <83lfhjkq0r.fsf@gnu.org> <8620B5CD-CA92-46BF-80A8-DBE7052F4CA6@gmail.com> <83d02re2uk.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="7369"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) Cc: Gregory Heytings , Eli Zaretskii , Elias =?utf-8?Q?M=C3=A5rtenson?= , Yuan Fu , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 26 18:41:17 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 1kMDG9-0001oX-AF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 18:41:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49254 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kMDG8-0007hU-CU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 12:41:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49948) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kMDEg-0006iD-Gg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 12:39:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.9]:55099) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kMDEe-00010x-6w; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 12:39:46 -0400 Original-Received: from frontend01.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.182]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BzDyh42HCz1qql5; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 18:39:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (dynscan1.mnet-online.de [192.168.6.70]) by mail.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BzDyh3Qcdz1qs0X; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 18:39:40 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mnet-online.de Original-Received: from mail.mnet-online.de ([192.168.8.182]) by localhost (dynscan1.mail.m-online.net [192.168.6.70]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id EXGeLOulH0ct; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 18:39:39 +0200 (CEST) X-Auth-Info: XKyQsRCzfKZS8R7eHOZlwjl7bpJXZegZ2z2MkdVz1GqUBY5afmy8dPUJlvOc3tx0 Original-Received: from igel.home (ppp-46-244-165-104.dynamic.mnet-online.de [46.244.165.104]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 18:39:39 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by igel.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1FA112C292A; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 18:39:39 +0200 (CEST) X-Yow: --``I love KATRINKA because she drives a PONTIAC. We're going away now. I fed the cat. - Zippy'' In-Reply-To: (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 26 Sep 2020 07:38:21 -0700 (PDT)") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=212.18.0.9; envelope-from=whitebox@nefkom.net; helo=mail-out.m-online.net X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/09/26 12:39:40 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 3.11 and newer [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -22 X-Spam_score: -2.3 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.3 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:256479 Archived-At: On Sep 26 2020, Drew Adams wrote: >> may I ask that if you click on "don't display again", >> the UI displays a brief explanation that it created >> the file and where it is?  >> >> It's a pet peeve of mine because in many applications >> I have selected such options accidentally and then >> had no way to find out how to get back to the original state. > > Yup. It's a pain to have to google later to > find out how to set/unset/reset some setting > (preference). > > Particularly a setting you chose (especially > if forced to choose) on the fly when you > brought up an app for the first time. I don't think a transient display of the explanation will fundamentally change the situation. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."