From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Interactive guide for new users Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 12:31:17 +0300 Message-ID: <83v9g0rije.fsf@gnu.org> References: <875z8ortot.fsf@gkayaalp.com> <83lfhjkq0r.fsf@gnu.org> <8620B5CD-CA92-46BF-80A8-DBE7052F4CA6@gmail.com> <83d02re2uk.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="31327"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: ghe@sdf.org, casouri@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Elias =?utf-8?Q?M=C3=A5rtenson?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 26 11:32:00 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kM6Yi-00081P-E6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 11:32:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33384 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kM6Yh-0007CM-FG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 05:31:59 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:44172) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kM6Xr-0006hf-Gq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 05:31:07 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:58344) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kM6Xp-0001rL-Vr; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 05:31:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2558 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kM6Xo-00032B-8Y; Sat, 26 Sep 2020 05:31:05 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Elias =?utf-8?Q?M=C3=A5rtenson?= on Sat, 26 Sep 2020 17:16:47 +0800) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." 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:256448 Archived-At: > From: Elias Mårtenson > Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 17:16:47 +0800 > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Yuan Fu , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > "Not now" would not do anything, so the initial greeting would be executed > again the next time Emacs is started. And "Don't show this again" would > create an empty ~/.emacs / ~/.emacs.d/init.el, so the initial greeting > would not be executed again. > > At the risk of adding to the bikeshedding, may I ask that if you click on "don't display again", the UI displays a > brief explanation that it created the file and where it is? > > It's a pet peeve of mine because in many applications I have selected such options accidentally and then had > no way to find out how to get back to the original state. Perhaps a better way would be to have a menu item that "displays again" the initial greeting? (That could be in addition to the brief explanation you propose displaying.)