Re: GNU Emacs raison d'etre

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

> On May 17, 2020, at 10:28, Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>>> This part is expected of a professional tool, however, and the
>>> experience for newcomers could be improved without taking away much
>>> from the "oldies". See the 'transient' package, for example, recently 
>>> proposed for inclusion on emacs-devel.
>> I don't have any experience using 'transient', so I'd need more explanation 
>> from you to understand what you meant by that part.  (I tried to understand 
>> 'transient' from reading [2] and [3], but unfortunately -- and somewhat 
>> surprisingly! -- the documentation at those pages does not give a single 
>> concrete example of transient's use.)
> 
> You press 'C-x', wait a while - and it pops up a window with the descriptions 
> of all commands whose bindings start with 'C-x'. Same for all other 
> "incomplete" key sequences. Looks pretty handy for beginners.

which-key seems to do something similar. I like it very much because it helps 
see the rationale behind keybinding. After a while you get to learn the 
bindings for the commands you use the most and you can easily explore new 
commands.


Jean-Christophe Helary
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