Re: Suggested experimental test

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 23.03.2021 15:27, Philip Kaludercic wrote:
> Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> writes:
>
> > On 23.03.2021 14:41, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > > But eventually, the intent is to change the default behavior, because
> > > rebinding any key to any command is already possible, and nothing
> > > prevents users from doing that in their private init files.  So
> > > having a non-default theme that makes a bunch of such rebindings
> > > makes little sense to me.
> >
> > I think the above is more important than the goal of making it a
> > default (which might or might not happen in 10 years or so, if we end
> > up reaching some critical mass of users who dislike Emacs's historical
> > bindings).
> >
> > But even while the alternative keybindings theme is not the default,
> > we would maintain it and keep it usable. Whenever we add something to
> > the default set, we would consider adding a corresponding binding to
> > that other theme, etc.
>
> You mean new default commands, right?

Yup.

Or other changes in the default set (moves, removals, replacements).

> > Having an alternative, well-considered set of bindings which new user
> > can just toggle on and get comfortable should be valuable.
>
> Yes, this was my understanding too. Ideally, the splash screen could
> instruct new users how to change the UX theme, making it easier to get
> comfortable.

Some initial screen could do that, yes. Or at least we would tell about 
in the same places we mention cua-mode now.