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+# On why most of the best features in eev look like 5-minute hacks
+Saturday, Nov 28 2020,  5:03 PM -  5:43 PM  
+Eduardo Ochs
+
+In the last months there were several hundreds of messages in
+emacs-devel in threads with names like "A proposal for a friendlier
+Emacs", "How to make Emacs popular again", and "Interactive guide for
+new users".  On the one hand I am absolutely sure that eev is very
+good answer to all these themes; on the other hand I know that eev is
+based on some design decisions that offend most people used to modern,
+"user-friendly" interfaces - and I feel that at this moment mentions
+to eev in those discussions in emacs-devel would not be welcome.
+
+In this talk I will start by presenting very quickly the main "killer
+features" of eev - namely:
+
+1.  Elisp hyperlinks,
+
+2.  interactive tutorials that can be navigated with just three keys,
+
+3.  non-invasiveness - people can easily turn eev on for only five
+    minutes each week, play with it a bit, and then turn it off,
+
+4.  high discoverability factor,
+
+5.  a way to create "hyperlinks to here",
+
+6.  hyperlinks to specific points in PDF documents and video files -
+    i.e., to specific pages, strings, and timemarks,
+
+7.  a way to control shell-like programs ("eepitch"), and
+
+8.  an Elisp tutorial,
+
+and after that I will present the design decisions behind eev, in two
+parts:
+
+1.  eev is a very thin layer above Emacs-the-Lisp-environment; it is
+    as simple as possible, but in the sense of "simple" that was used
+    in Forth, and that is not very familiar today.
+
+2.  Very often when I am using Emacs - which is my main interface
+    with the system - I realize that I can automate some task that I
+    just did by hand twice of thrice; and that I should do that,
+    because automating that would be both easy and fun.  Over the
+    years I experimented with several ways of automating tasks,
+    refined some of these ways a lot, and found a certain "best"
+    style that, again, usually offends people who are accustomed with
+    the modern ideas of user-friendliness.  In this style, used in
+    most template-based functions in eev, both textual documentation
+    and error-handling are kept to a minimum.  I will show how, and
+    why, eev makes this style works so well, and how users can create
+    their own templated functions very quickly - as "5-minute hacks".
+
+
+
+
+Back to the [[schedule]]
+
+All times are approximate, and we might shuffle talks around as needed. Please check https://emacsconf.org/2020 a few days before the start of the conference for instructions on how to watch and participate.
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