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Re: Opaque objects and Emacs documentation


From: Andy Moreton
Subject: Re: Opaque objects and Emacs documentation
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2020 17:38:27 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (windows-nt)

On Fri 24 Jul 2020, Dmitry Gutov wrote:

> On 24.07.2020 04:22, Andy Moreton wrote:
>>>> As an ordinary user, project.el requires significant investment of time
>>>> and effort to discover if it might be useful or not. Most users do not
>>>> read the elisp sources, and are not necessarily familiar with CL generics.
>>>
>>> You might want to try pressing 'C-x p C-h'.
>> A useful entry point, but only once you know it exists! Making things
>> discoverable is important for getting new users up to speed.
>
> From the Commentary again:
>
>   ;; Type `C-x p C-h' to see all available commands and bindings.

The commentry is aimed at devleopers who have the elisp source available.
Users might not have the lisp sources installed, and even if it is
available are less likely to read it.

    AndyM




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