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Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers
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Po Lu |
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Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers |
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Sun, 19 Apr 2020 16:21:40 +0800 |
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ndame <address@hidden> writes:
> Yes, these changes should be clearly marked in NEWS, so those who don't want
> them, can revert them.
Massive features that drastically change behaviour should be off by
default. Stability over users. What's wrong with a button on the fancy
splash screen?
> Out of the box Emacs should be instantly usable for newcomers and older users
> could adapt for the sake of Emacs. I wouldn't mind adding a line to my .emacs
> to
> turn something off which I don't need, but which can make the life of new
> users easier.
You can't turn massive changes off by adding "one line to my .emacs".
You can however turn them on by adding a button to the splash screen.
Emacs cannot and will never be usable out-of-the-box for 100% of all
usecases. You can however make it easier for people to start, and again
that's when the "button on splash screen" approach comes in.
> For example, CUA mode could be on by default. I would turn it off, but it
> could
> make the life of new users easier if they didn't have to turn it on explicitly
> and they could use their copy/paste keys from the start like they are used it
> to
> in other tools.
That mentality would lead to an unacceptable maintainence burden for a lot of
people. Again: what's wrong with putting a button on the splash screen?
- Re: "Why is emacs so square?", (continued)
- Re: "Why is emacs so square?", ndame, 2020/04/19
- Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers (was: "Why is emacs so square?"), Po Lu, 2020/04/19
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers (was: "Why is emacs so square?"), Eduardo Ochs, 2020/04/19
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Po Lu, 2020/04/19
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers (was: "Why is emacs so square?"), 조성빈, 2020/04/19
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers (was: "Why is emacs so square?"), ndame, 2020/04/19
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers,
Po Lu <=
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, ndame, 2020/04/19
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Po Lu, 2020/04/19
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Sébastien Gendre, 2020/04/19
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Stefan Kangas, 2020/04/19
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Tim Cross, 2020/04/19
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Po Lu, 2020/04/20
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Stefan Monnier, 2020/04/20
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Po Lu, 2020/04/21
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Simen Heggestøyl, 2020/04/21
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Yuan Fu, 2020/04/21