Re: Changes in the menu bar

[Miles Bader]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> Yes, they say "I want to search for something", and then try to correlate 
> that wish with what they see in the menu.  For each menu item, they are 
> asking themselves: will this item allow me to do what I want?  I want to 
> give them as much info as possible to make a decision.

Then the menu item should just say `search for something'.  Adding
`with regexps' is unnecessary detail unless there's actually a
corresponding search command that _doesn't_ use regexps.

I think it's the sort of detail that belongs in the tooltips.

> > In any case, I think the people looking will fall into two classes:
> > (1) experienced users, who will know that most such things in emacs use
> > regexps, and (2) novices, who won't even know to ask the question.
> 
> I'm thinking about the latter kind.

I rather think their response will be `What's a regexp?'

-Miles
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