Re: Manual does not mention dictionary.el

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: chad <yandros@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 14:23:01 -0400
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2024 at 5:40 AM Petteri Hintsanen <petterih@iki.fi> wrote:
> 
>  Fair enough.  I'll try to remember check NEWS next time.
> 
> FWIW, when I saw your initial post I immediately checked "C-h P dict"
> and found it. This UI could probably use some help, and it has been
> discussed in the past, but discovery is a non-trivial problem for
> roughly everyone (examples: elpa/melpa, Doom, VS Code, both Apple and
> Google's app stores, roughly every version of Windows since NT,
> etc.). I didn't post this earlier because your OP seemed reasonably
> clearly directed at the manual, but I do find it helpful in similar
> situations.

Discovery is a hard problem in a package as large as Emacs.  I very
much doubt that adding a passage to the user manual makes discovery
easier.  In fact, I think NEWS is much more visible than addition of a
paragraph somewhere in the manual.

As for "C-h P": I don't know what you found there, since dictionary.el
is part of Emacs, so package.el doesn't know about it.  "C-h P dict"
finds dict-tree for me, which is something different.  I guess you
have "C-h P" bound to some other command than in "emacs -Q".