Re: An anonymous IRC user's opinion

[Emanuel Berg]

Ship Mints wrote:

> Probably already mentioned...Philip Kaludercic made the
> following Emacs init file generator which might be a good
> basis for helping people get started with specialized
> packages and configurations they might want to try.

That is probably what he set out to do, and he did it, and not
in a bad way, so good, the only objection would be this has to
be executed at the discretion of the user, yes, give me
guided configuration.

When I started to program I didn't know half of that stuff,
but I just might have had enough cognitive plusplus to grasp
the concept of a text editor and that Emacs was one.

So the first time anyone starts Emacs, blank .emacs or not,
what should happen is a very quick startup with as little
visual noise and technobabble as possible, and then just an
all-white, empty buffer: hello there, you came to the right
place, I am ALL YOURS to edit! Because, when the expected
happens, this is actually a good feeling even to
adventurous people.

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