On Sun, Feb 07 2016, Jani Nikula wrote: > On Sun, 07 Feb 2016, David Edmondson <dme@dme.org> wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 13 2015, Jani Nikula <jani@nikula.org> wrote: >>> Display the shortcut jump key next to the saved search name in notmuch >>> hello, if one is defined for the saved search. >> >> I quite like the idea of this (and Mark's followup), but I wonder about >> the utility. With notmuch-jump, as soon as I hit `j' a list of the >> possible keystrokes and the corresponding search is presented, so I >> don't need to refer to the list in the hello buffer to know what to do. > > Much of the point in this was to discuss how to make the UI, and the > very capable features we have, more discoverable to new uses. Most > people won't start by reading the documentation (which we don't even > really have for notmuch-emacs). Keeping the UI uncluttered and clean at > the same time is hard. > > Perhaps promoting the '?' key in my other patch is enough. Perhaps an > alternative would be to highlight the 'j' key in "Saved searches: > [edit]" somehow. I think the advertisement of '?' is sufficient. We don't provide an on-screen guide in any of the other modes and (it appears to be emerging that) emacs tools are providing help for complex sequences of operations via secondary popups (like notmuch-jump or the magit equivalent).