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bug#15095: 24.2; mail items in Tools menu confusing to new users
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#15095: 24.2; mail items in Tools menu confusing to new users |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Aug 2013 05:44:59 +0300 |
> From: Carson Chittom <carson@wistly.net>
> Cc: 15095@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2013 14:49:57 -0500
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Another issue that might be confusing here is that you can start mail
> > composition and send it without reading any email before that. That's
> > why there are 2 menu items instead of one.
>
> I agree (of course) that that's what's going on and why there are
> currently two menu items. My contention, though, is that the kind of
> people who are apt to be confused are the same people who don't want to,
> or rather don't think to, send mail without going to the mail function.
> Put another way, "Send a mail message while in the text editing mode"
> sounds strange unless you already know how Emacs handles sending mail,
I'm guessing everyone is nowadays aware of a function in a word
processor that sends the current document via email. So I think you
are wrong here.
> Incidentally, I didn't remember what came up, so I just tried (via
> emacs -Q and then going through Rmail) to send a message like a new user
> would. Emacs (presumably message.el) just prompts me to select "mail
> client," "transport," or "smtp" to send my message; and there is no
> indication that I've left Rmail.
The indication is in the mode line, as usual in Emacs. After all,
that's how you know you are in Rmail, right?
- bug#15095: 24.2; mail items in Tools menu confusing to new users, Carson Chittom, 2013/08/14
- bug#15095: 24.2; mail items in Tools menu confusing to new users, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/08/14
- bug#15095: 24.2; mail items in Tools menu confusing to new users, Stefan Monnier, 2013/08/14
- bug#15095: 24.2; mail items in Tools menu confusing to new users, Carson Chittom, 2013/08/14
- bug#15095: 24.2; mail items in Tools menu confusing to new users,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#15095: 24.2; mail items in Tools menu confusing to new users, Carson Chittom, 2013/08/15
- bug#15095: 24.2; mail items in Tools menu confusing to new users, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/08/15
- bug#15095: 24.2; mail items in Tools menu confusing to new users, Carson Chittom, 2013/08/15
- bug#15095: 24.2; mail items in Tools menu confusing to new users, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/08/15
- bug#15095: 24.2; mail items in Tools menu confusing to new users, Stefan Monnier, 2013/08/15