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Re: VC menu ?


From: Ted Zlatanov
Subject: Re: VC menu ?
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2017 10:01:43 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux)

On Thu, 06 Jul 2017 07:27:12 -0400 Mark Oteiza <address@hidden> wrote: 

MO> Sarcasm aside, if you had ever flipped through the Emacs manual or
MO> scrolled through a list of keybindings, you would have been aware of VC.

I think menu-driven UI discovery is fun and an essential part of the GUI
experience. We should not expect users to be diligent readers[1].

Ted

[1] as previously posted:

Rule #1 of writing manuals: They Won't Read It. 

...followed by rule #2: They Still Won't Read It. 

...and then rule #3: They'll Complain About It. 

...then David Kastrup suggested I forgot rule #4: To Justify not Reading It. 




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