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

[Jeremy Bryant]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Jeremy Bryant <jb@jeremybryant.net>
>> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:23:29 +0000
>> 
>> A recent theme of discussion has been improving discoverability of Emacs
>> features, and in a related way, 'better defaults'.
>> 
>> Here is a suggestion - include which-key in core and potentially enable
>> by for new users.
>
> How do we detect "new users"?

Good question, how about a user entry on the splashscreen?

> If we include which-key, but do not enable it by default, would that
> be good enough?

Yes.
How can I help with this?

Move the .el files from the ELPA package into lisp/ ?
Manual entry- ?

>
> Another idea is to add a feature whereby, after some delay after the
> user types an incomplete key sequence, the buffer usually popped by
> C-h or '?' pops up automatically.  This would be a smaller change in
> the UX, which might therefore be more easily acceptable even by
> not-so-new users.

Interesting, which buffer and part of the code is this?
(it seems to appear in *Help*)