Re: Discoverability (was: Changes for 28)

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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  > I have three concrete proposals distilled from the
  > original thread, followed by a summary of what I see as a common goal
  > that everyone could work toward -- discoverability. Best!
  > Tom


  > Three proposals related to making Emacs functionality more discoverable.
  > 1. Add the Describe sub-menu to the top in addition to having it as a
  >    sub-menu in Help.
  > 2. Have a set minimal configs, created by community experts, that
  >    show off the configuration space of Emacs, including configurations
  >    that would be familiar to users of other popular tools.
  > 3. Maintain the celebration of the diversity of Emacs use cases in
  >    a separate, but easily accessible repository. This could include
  >    things like the starter kits. This point is primarily inspired by
  >    the fact that the default core of Emacs by itself cannot be all
  >    things to all people, but that doesn't mean that we can't display
  >    the fact that when configured accordingly, it can be all things to
  >    all people.

These are very good ideas.  1 and 2 are quite concrete -- I think
people could go off right now and implement them, figuring out the
details along the way.

3 is not quite as concrete, not yet.  But people could propose sorts of
of configurations we might have starter kits for, and that way we could
make it more concrete.

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