Re: GNU Emacs raison d'etre

[Sergey Organov]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Sergey Organov <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 15:24:33 +0300
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
>>  address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>> 
>> >> 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?

My argument was that newbie never wants minibuffer prompt, so this is
not an issue. I mean it'd always be dialog unless "newbie-mode" is
turned off.

-- Sergey