RE: Examples of Great Software/Web-based User Guides

[Erik Hare <wabbitoid47 -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Dan Goldstein wrote: 
  
> An early version of RH's Help used the execrable term
> "automagical."

The term is easily over-used, but it has one critical use.  In our world, a kind of deus ex machina is expected constantly from the instruments and institutions around us.  It's rarely our faith in deus that causes us to expect it, but more of a machina ex deus.  

The term "automagical" is very precise when appliance usage crosses a line to a kind of belief system.  It happens far more often than it should, too.

Erik Hare


      
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