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

[Jeremy Bryant]

>> > Patches welcome, of course.
>> 
>> Would it be useful to have a few 'starter' commented init files /
>> configurations.
>> This would be a built-in version of personal init files, but very small,
>> and commented.
>
> I think the idea was to have an interactive feature, whereby a user is
> asked questions regarding his/her preferences and needs, and the
> related features are then enabled.
>
> A related idea was to come up with mostly-independent groups of
> settings that are suitable for some general usage pattern.  For
> example, someone who needs to develop Python programs might want
> certain optional features enabled.
>
> Having init files like you suggest once again places the burden on the
> users to read the comments and decide what to do about them.  I think
> this is not the optimal solution.

I understand.  How should this be implemented, would this be a new file
in the Emacs tree, or part of an existing file.
I can volunteer to work on an early prototype.

>
>> > Some Emacs commands I suggest for this are:
>> >
>> >   C-u M-x apropos
>> >   M-x apropos-documentation
>> >   C-h R elisp RET followed by 'i' (Info-index) and the subject
>> 
>> Would it make sense to have a specific small section in the Emacs manual
>> that
>> Then a link to that manual section could be provided early on
>> A sort of 'discoverability start point'?
>
> We already have it: see the beginning of the "Help" node in the user
> manual.

Good.  As part of a discoverability feature, perhaps we could link to
this node in more places, eg in C-h C-h itself