Re: assistance

["Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Fri, 04 Jun 2004, miles@gnu.org wrote:

> It's great to see assistants being worked on -- I set up someone with
> Gnus the other day, and though newsreading was going, I _could not_
> figure out how to set up mail-reading (using maildir)!

I finally got more than one possible choices in an assistant to work,
although I haven't figured out how the jump from the end of one
assistant branch to the next branch should work.  I hoped it would be
simple but it ended up being quite complex, because I tried to avoid
building a full tree every time.  But that may have to be done in the
end...  Is there a library in ELisp for building and traversing
trees?  I don't feel like writing it from scratch if I don't have to.

Check out the current gnus-setup.ast, it's the start of the Gnus
setup assistant and you can render it OK (except for the
multiple-branch traversal I mentioned above).  People should feel
free to contribute to the assistants (code or text!)

Ted