Re: A new filter-based customization interface

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

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  > - beginner-friendly
 
  > Using terms that users may be already familiar with.  Users can be
  > coming from different backgrounds.

There is an implicit contradiction between those two sentences.  To
predict what terms users are familiar with, we need to know their
background.  If their backgrounds are diverse, such prediction becomes
harder.

  > - gradually introduce users to emacs vocabulary
 
That is a design goal, not an implementation plan.  Realizing that
goal might be ok, or intolerable, depending on the specific way in
which the interface does that.

Emacs has existed for 48 years.  Much of its terminology has been the
same since then.  By comparison, the other interfaces you are thinking
of are passing fads.  There are changes we can make, but rewriting so
much documentation based on a fad would be misguided.

We want to teach users our terminology, not try to speak in theirs.
 
  > While most of the filters would use familiar terms, there are some
  > that are emacs-specific.  This makes users realize that these words
  > are important/special in emacs.
 
  > For example: face, overlay, minibuffer, keybinding, keymap, font-lock,
  > narrowing, mark, region, kill ring, mark ring, etc.

That is buried down in the details.  I think you have an idea for the
middle level of design, which links the design goal to these details.
You need to describe it clearly.

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