Re: "New user" customize group?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: sbaugh@catern.com
> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 10:16:04 -0400
> 
> 
> customize provides an interface for changing many things about Emacs
> without any knowledge of Elisp.  But, it can be overwhelming, because
> there's just so many things you can customize.
> 
> Maybe there should be a "new user" page in customize which has a few
> selected settings which new users are most likely to be interested in
> changing?  And it should be linked from the splash screen, or perhaps
> the tutorial.

Sure, the idea is fine.  It's making it happen that is tough: what
exactly are "new user"s interests is anybody's guess.  Users differ
very much in what would be important for them, because that depends
heavily on what each user needs to do with Emacs, whether he/she is a
programmer or not, etc. etc.

> Some settings which new users are most likely to be interested in
> changing: the theme, the default face, enabling cua-mode, linum-mode,
> tab-bar-mode, etc.

Those are your opinions.  I'm sure many will disagree and point out
other settings new users will most likely want to customize.  For
example, CUA and tab bars are probably quite controversial.

That said, I wouldn't want to discourage anyone from trying to come up
with such a group, so feel free to work on that, and thank you for
your interest in Emacs and its new users.