Re: [ELPA] New package: transient

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: João Távora <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 3 May 2020 16:03:33 +0100
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>, address@hidden, 
>       Richard Stallman <address@hidden>, emacs-devel <address@hidden>
> 
> While I agree with your stance on documentation, only recently did I
> start learning a bit the new `C-h` commands.  Are they new-ish?

No, most of them are very old.  We have "C-h d" since Emacs 22.1, for
example.  Some of them were added in Emacs 23 and 24.

> Anyway travelling to the Elisp manual is usual a matter of:
> 
> M-x info RET C-s elisp RET RET C-s thing-im-hopeful-to-find C-s C-s

My suggestion is to (a) always have the ELisp manual open in some
frame, and (b) look for whatever you need with the 'i' command,
possibly aided by TAB-completion.

> My point it that the manual-savvy workflow should be better
> advertised. Maybe some photogenic person among us could
> make a screencast or something, that has a lot of impact.

I'm all for it.