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

[Howard Melman <hmelman@gmail.com>]

<tomas@tuxteam.de> writes:

> On Fri, Feb 02, 2024 at 09:24:55PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>> Since we are talking about _enabling_ the feature, the
>> above would mean that veteran users will need to be asked
>> whether to _disable_ it.  Wouldn't that be an annoyance?
>
> For this one it would, yes. An unexpected popup can ruin
> my day.

If, like disabling works, it would write to the init and it
would be a one-time annoyance, I don't think it's a big
deal.

If this debuted with a handful of beginner features
configured as such, the NEWS could mention it and tell
vererans to put a small block of code in their init to turn
off things they don't want.  Veterans are more likely to
read NEWS than newbies.

> So I'd really, really like to know that it is actually
> going to help someone, then I'd be willing to go the extra
> mile and disable it for me.

A lot of newbies find which-key very useful.  I'm a long
time user and often find it useful.  Especially for
"newfangled" prefixes like M-g, M-s, C-x x, etc. :)

I don't know what other beginner features might qualify,
that would have to be evaluated carefully, but for a few,
this idea occurred to me as a way to have it enabled for
newbies using a small variation of a mechanism that exists
for a similar purpose.

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Howard