Re: GNU Emacs raison d'etre

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Sergey Organov <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 15:24:33 +0300
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> >> And here there are 2 more problems for newbies. They usually expect
> >> pop-up /modal/ dialog to be thrown on them for anything but text input
> >> or moving around.
> >
> > That happens in Emacs for some/many commands invoked via the menu bar.
> 
> Then this must be rather easy to achieve for keyboard induced commands
> as well.

Not really.  When the user invokes a command from the menu, we have a
clear signal that the mouse is being used, and therefore can display a
GUI dialog without fear.  But when the user types "C-x C-f", how can
we know that he/she expects a dialog box and not a minibuffer prompt?