Also, I do kind of like your idea, and I wholeheartedly agree with this:
New users aren't going to know what "M-x describe-mode" refers to (or even what "M-x" is).
Half the battle in learning Emacs is to get really, really used to all the help commands. You need to play with all of them, and you need to use them a lot, and somehow the documentation didn't really get this through to me at first. (Yegge, to his credit, makes this point 8 in his list of hints: http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/effective-emacs)
Also, I do kind of like your idea, and I wholeheartedly agree with this:
New users aren't going to know what "M-x describe-mode" refers to (or even what "M-x" is).
Half the battle in learning Emacs is to get really, really used to all the help commands. You need to play with all of them, and you need to use them a lot, and somehow the documentation didn't really get this through to me at first. (Yegge, to his credit, makes this point 8 in his list of hints: http://steve.yegge.googlepages.com/effective-emacs)