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Re: Discoverability (was: Changes for 28)
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Discoverability (was: Changes for 28) |
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Wed, 09 Sep 2020 22:35:00 -0400 |
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> I have three concrete proposals distilled from the
> original thread, followed by a summary of what I see as a common goal
> that everyone could work toward -- discoverability. Best!
> Tom
> Three proposals related to making Emacs functionality more discoverable.
> 1. Add the Describe sub-menu to the top in addition to having it as a
> sub-menu in Help.
> 2. Have a set minimal configs, created by community experts, that
> show off the configuration space of Emacs, including configurations
> that would be familiar to users of other popular tools.
> 3. Maintain the celebration of the diversity of Emacs use cases in
> a separate, but easily accessible repository. This could include
> things like the starter kits. This point is primarily inspired by
> the fact that the default core of Emacs by itself cannot be all
> things to all people, but that doesn't mean that we can't display
> the fact that when configured accordingly, it can be all things to
> all people.
These are very good ideas. 1 and 2 are quite concrete -- I think
people could go off right now and implement them, figuring out the
details along the way.
3 is not quite as concrete, not yet. But people could propose sorts of
of configurations we might have starter kits for, and that way we could
make it more concrete.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
- Discoverability (was: Changes for 28), Tom Gillespie, 2020/09/08
- Re: Discoverability (was: Changes for 28), Stefan Kangas, 2020/09/08
- Re: Discoverability (was: Changes for 28), Richard Stallman, 2020/09/09
- Re: Discoverability (was: Changes for 28),
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- RE: Discoverability (was: Changes for 28), Drew Adams, 2020/09/10
- Re: Discoverability (was: Changes for 28), Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/10
- RE: Discoverability (was: Changes for 28), Drew Adams, 2020/09/10
- Re: Discoverability (was: Changes for 28), Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/10
- RE: Discoverability (was: Changes for 28), Drew Adams, 2020/09/10
- Re: Discoverability (was: Changes for 28), Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/10
- RE: Discoverability (was: Changes for 28), Drew Adams, 2020/09/10