Re: [ELPA] New package: transient

[Stefan Monnier]

>> >> The documentation satisfies a different need.  This discussion is not
>> >> about replacing the manual with something else.
>> > Not the manual, the help commands.
>> 
>> Neither one nor the other.  Nobody is talking about *replacing* anything
>> (other than replacing some names with others, admittedly ;-)
>
> Not entirely accurate.  The proposal is to replace (or, rather, add)
> some names that will allow users to discover APIs using completion,
> instead of using Help commands, which were designed for this job.

Right, replace some names.  Not replace the manual or the help commands
with something else.  It might make it possible for some people to
resort to the manual and help commands a bit less often, but that
doesn't mean it will replace them, just like the refcard doesn't
replace the manual, or eldoc doesn't replace the help commands.


        Stefan