Re: [ELPA] New package: transient

[Philippe Vaucher]

> Overall I think it's a shame that the Emacs api wasn't designed with discoverability/consistency in mind

Would you mind elaborate on this deficiency?  I don't think I quite
understand the complaint.

It's hard to really criticize because Emacs was designed ages ago.

My point is simply this one: when I look at https://github.com/magnars/dash.el, https://github.com/NicolasPetton/seq.el or https://github.com/magnars/s.el I can immediately understand how the library works and how to achieve things. I can also easily use `C-h f` to find about the function I want.

In Emacs, parts of it are designed following the same principle, but a lot of it isn't:

• https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Association-Lists.html sometimes assoc, alist-get, assq, copy-alist. How am I supposed to use `C-h f alist TAB` to discover the function I want? I can't, I have to go to that webpage and read it all.
• https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/List-Elements.html sometimes named logically (nth, remove, append), sometimes named after implementation detail (car, cdr), and no grouping at all so I can't `C-h f list TAB`

Kind regards,

Philippe