Re: [ELPA] New package: transient

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 03.05.2020 17:45, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Years of using Emacs with its superb documentation and elaborate
> facilities to find stuff in that documentation caused me to be more
> demanding, to expect better documentation that is easier to access
> quickly.  I might compromise if something like that is not available
> when I'm working with other software, but I certainly don't want to
> give that up when I work on Emacs!  And I'm astonished to hear that
> people don't_want_  the documentation we provide and the help commands
> to go with it, and are willing to settle for API completion!

The main reason the discussion even went that way is because instead of 
acknowledging that the user's scenario is valid and the request is 
reasonable (that code completion and describe-function's completion will 
work easier and faster if function names are more predictable), you 
responded with the recommendations to "just use manual".

Whereas the manual provides a different workflow and doesn't cover all 
cases. For instance, it only covers the functions in the core. Maybe not 
even all of them. Whereas the aforementioned features work uniformly for 
all functions, no matter where defined or by whom.