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1.1 Motivations ¶

Goals ¶

• To provide a keyboard-driven menu UI toolkit for common Emacs commands.
• To allow for casual discovery and use of infrequently used Emacs commands.
• To be a frequently used interface for modes supported by Casual.

Non-Goals ¶

• Full coverage of all Emacs commands.

  Casual is not intended to be a power user tool nor is it intended to be a replacement for mouse-driven menus. Casual has no intent to exhaustively cover all modes available in Emacs with keyboard-driven menus.

• Strict adherence to Emacs command naming.

  While Casual is mostly in alignment with Emacs command naming, there are cases where it will make an opinionated change if the name is deemed too vague or idiomatic.

• No intention is made by Casual to help on-board users to the existing default bindings of a mode, nor cater to users who already know them.

  That said, many existing default Emacs bindings are replicated in Casual. Such correspondence should be considered incidental.

• UX Stability (for now).

  Given that Casual is early in its life-cycle, expect changes to its user experience in terms of menu hierarchy and keybinding choices in future releases.

Editorially, all design decisions for Casual are ultimately the opinion of Charles Y. Choi.