Re: [ELPA] New package: transient

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 02.05.2020 18:37, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Cc:address@hidden,address@hidden,address@hidden
> > From: Dmitry Gutov<address@hidden>
> > Date: Sat, 2 May 2020 17:56:16 +0300
> >
> > On 02.05.2020 13:54, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > >    -- Function: assoc key alist &optional testfn
> > > >    -- Function: rassoc value alist
> > > >    -- Function: assq key alist
> > > >    -- Function: alist-get key alist &optional default remove testfn
> > > >    -- Function: rassq value alist
> > > >    -- Function: assoc-default key alist &optional test default
> > > >    -- Function: copy-alist alist
> > > >    -- Function: assq-delete-all key alist
> > > >    -- Function: assoc-delete-all key alist
> > > >    -- Function: rassq-delete-all value alist
> > > >
> > > > That's what I would like to get out of the manual easily.
> > > I fail to see how will the above list be useful, if you know nothing
> > > about the function's name.
> > The workflow goes like this:
> >
> > You type 'C-h f', start typing
> I said "if you know nothing about the function's name".  How do you
> "start typing" in this situation?  Typing what?

The more frequent case is when you know *something*.

"Know nothing" is a strawman. Or it presupposes that function names are 
frequently such that it's impossible to guess. We do have a few of 
those, but they are a historical oddity, and we shouldn't add more.