Re: position on changing defaults?

[Dan Nicolaescu]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

  > Dan Nicolaescu <address@hidden> writes:
  > >   > .... and is a completely and utterly different interface, one which is
  > >   > hated by many, and arguably is extremely confusing for newbies.  
  > >
  > > We must have different experiences: all the newbies that I've shown
  > > iswitchb loved it.  That's the main reason to propose this.
  > 
  > I'm not saying that many people don't find it useful, simply that at
  > first glance, if you aren't expecting it, it can be rather ... daunting.
  > Of course, I suppose it's somewhat less so when one is given a personal
  > introduction...

In this case the personal introduction was limited to: 
"Do M-x iswitchb-mode RET and now try C-x b".

Can we generalize based on this? Maybe, maybe not, but it might be worth
a try.