Re: Wizards! I mean, Assistants!

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> (I don't really like that word, though.  "Assistant"?)

I think "saints" was proposed last time, but I don't recall if people
liked it.  

Another idea is to spin something off the swedish word (but surely also part of
most scandinavian languages) "(hus-)tomte" which are small creatures that help
people do things, like milk a cow and other everyday matters.  I don't know
an english word for it, though.  Except for the obvious "santa claus" (which
probably has too many other connotations to be useful), my dictionary only
propose "brownie".  Do people associate "brownie" with anything but cookies?

But, surely a specification-language for this must exist?  How do you write a
wizard under Windows, or GTK?  I really hope people aren't designing those
widget by widget.

Of course, it would be nice if it was generic, so other Emacs packages
can use it.

Err.  Only diversion and no code from me, sorry.