Re: discoverability, better defaults and which-key in Emacs

[Emanuel Berg <incal@dataswamp.org>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>>>> Here is a suggestion - include which-key in core and
>>>> potentially enable by for new users.
>>>
>>> How do we detect "new users"?
>> 
>> Good question, how about a user entry on the splashscreen?
>
> I don't think I understand, please elaborate. Do you mean we
> will ask users to say, up front, that they consider
> themselves "new users", each time they start a new
> Emacs session?

Instead of Emacs finding out who is a new user or old, new and
old users alike should find what they look for in Emacs.

With configuration, maybe one can have a FAQ specifically for
that. If one has the 20 most common configuration use cases
listed with Elisp one-liners to do it, that would be a good
start. And beyond that, people already have experience anyway.

Another case is finding code in core Emacs and in ELPA to do
stuff so one don't spend time writing Elisp for that oneself.
This is an area where I failed big time myself. Maybe today
googling can offer more as much more code is available online?

Probably someone is working on an AI tool as we speak, so that
one can truly "ask Emacs".

I for one would be very interested to know what of my Elisp
I can discard in favor of using stuff in core Emacs.
But I don't have a confident answer how to find out.

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