Re: What is the most useful potential feature which Emacs lacks?

[Stefan Monnier]

>>One idea: the first time a user tries to specify a directory in find-file,
>>display a help screen to explain what that means, and describe a few
>>usual ways out.
>>Do you think this would ameliorate the problem?
> My guess is it would ameliorate the problem for some users, and scare off
> other ones (ones who are less patient, or, put another way, who are less
> willing to invest time in reading an explanatory screen like that to figure
> out what just happened).

Maybe we could simply use the "confirm" mechanism.  I.e. don't put any
explanatory text, but just emit "[confirm]" and wait for a second RET,
just like we do when `C-x C-f` specifies a non-existing file.


        Stefan