Emacs setup assistants

Ted Zlatanov tzz at lifelogs.com
Wed May 26 09:59:27 EDT 2004


On Wed, 26 May 2004, eliz at gnu.org wrote:

>> From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz at lifelogs.com>
>> Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 14:16:35 -0400
>> 
>> Power users don't need assistants.
> 
> I disagree.  Power users don't need assistance in setting up something
> that they are already power users at.  But when they need to set up
> something they never did before, they could use assistance.  At least
> I do.

Power users don't need assistants so much because they know where to
look (M-x apropos, etc.) - that's what I meant.  It's not an absolute
rule, but I think it's safe to say that assistants should not *target*
power users, and if those are assisted as well, so much the better.

Ted




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