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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Jeremy Bryant <jb@jeremybryant.net>
> Cc: incal@dataswamp.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2024 14:07:19 +0000
> 
> > 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.

I think a separate file is the best, thanks.

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

We could do that, but there's always the discoverability of "C-h C-h"
itself...