From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Ok, I have had it. A proposal for wizards.
Date: 02 Jan 2004 12:02:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <x57k0aboko.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2719-Fri02Jan2004112055+0200-eliz@elta.co.il>
"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il> writes:
> > From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> > Date: 02 Jan 2004 04:28:42 +0100
> >
> > Emacs comes bundled with a whole lot of packages that are not loaded
> > by default. The typical scene when somebody complains to a guru "it
> > would be so convenient if Emacs could do such-and-such" is "well,
> > have you enabled/configured this-and-that?" -- blank stare.
> >
> > So what to do about that? Wizards. A wizard is a human-friendly
> > walk-through through some configuration issue.
>
> Last time we discussed something similar, the overall consensus was
> to call these ``saints'', not ``wizards''.
Wonderful.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-01-02 11:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-02 3:28 Ok, I have had it. A proposal for wizards David Kastrup
2004-01-02 9:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-01-02 11:02 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2004-01-02 14:27 ` Danilo Segan
2004-01-02 15:33 ` David Kastrup
2004-01-03 2:43 ` Miles Bader
2004-01-04 3:52 ` Richard Stallman
2004-01-04 5:48 ` David Kastrup
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