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Re: [External] : Make new buffer from menu


From: Jean Louis
Subject: Re: [External] : Make new buffer from menu
Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2022 15:13:49 +0300
User-agent: Mutt/2.2.9+50 (c79959e) (2022-11-21)

* Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com> [2022-12-03 23:28]:
> There is significant difference between help and advice Tomas.
> 
> Imagine you are struggling to carry a bundle of blankets through
> a narrow door to a storage area, your hands are full, the blankets
> are heavy, and one of them catches on the door.  You ask a friend
> to help you.  He quickly goes to the door, unsticks the blanket
> and tosses it up over the other blankets so that you can keep moving
> forward.  That is help.

By thinking rigidly about "advice" and "help", advice is under help's
jurisdiction, as it is how it says below.

By {M-x wordnut-search RET advice RET}:

advice -- (a proposal for an appropriate course of action)

Most of help on a mailing list is in the form of advice.

And by thinking flexibly, it is difficult to sense on distance what
type of help is expected by person seeking help.  That opens another
question if people should try conforming expectations of type of help
or if people should keep providing the best possible answer by their
opinion.

-- 
Jean

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