Re: Gnus-ances

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

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

> Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:
> 
> > > I can almost envision a general framework for Emacs wizards.  It's
> > > mainly a tree of options for the user to navigate through, right? 
> > 
> > That sounds more like customize.
> 
> Well, not all that much.  A wizard usually guides people through a
> series of actions.  Say, the user says that she wishes to use pop for
> fetching mail, and the wizard then asks "which pop server?"  If the
> user said "fetch from the local spool", then the wizard would check
> whether /var/spool/mail is there, and suggest that instead.  And so
> on.
> 
> Customize lets you find your own way through the options.  A wizard
> only lets you take certain steps, in (what it considers) proper order.

Long as its not like tha obnoxious little freak `paperclip guy' that
constantly pops up on my wifes MS-word application.

In my few uses of that app, the little busy paperclip narrowly escaped
being shot.