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List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:254779 Archived-At: I think everybody would agree on attracting more people to use = Emacs=E2=80=94that means more blogs and help, more contributor, etc. And = people agree that Emacs isn=E2=80=99t as beginner-friendly as it could = be. The problem is what to improve, and how. As the first step, we should collect real experiences from real = beginners: someone starts to use Emacs just recently (e.g., less than = one year). Ask people around, ask people on the internet. I=E2=80=99ll = post on reddit for some input. Can I use a title like =E2=80=9CEmacs = developers wants to know what confuses beginners in vanilla Emacs?=E2=80=9D= Once we have an idea on what real beginners are complaining about, we = can then try to improve them. Yuan=