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Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers |
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Tue, 21 Apr 2020 23:14:37 -0400 |
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> The solution mentioned earlier in the thread can work well: Emacs defaults
> stay Emacs-like to satisfy the veterans, but if a new user downloads
> emacs and starts it without a config file then an optional initial config is
> prominently offered which can ease the transition for new users, make emacs
> less alien, more similar to existing systems.
I agree this could be a good thing if it is done well.
It would be nice to make it easy for a user's configuration to
select this alternate interface even after making a nontrivial .emacs file
and specifying other parameters.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, (continued)
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/04/20
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Stefan Monnier, 2020/04/20
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, chad, 2020/04/21
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Richard Stallman, 2020/04/21
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/04/21
Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, ndame, 2020/04/21
- Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers,
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Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers, ndame, 2020/04/27