How will any of this differ from the many existing canned default setups
already available? In fact, given the limitation on only using Emacs
built-in packages, is it even possible to do a setup which is even close to
some of these canned setups, many of which appear to be targeted at new
users (spacemacs, doom, prelude, etc). Are we just talking about a GNU
canned configuration?

On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 at 10:37, Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> wrote:

> Sébastien Gendre <seb@k-7.ch> writes:
>
> > For these 4 use-cases, we can simply provide 2 flavors of Emacs:
> > - Emacs: With all the 2020 features, a modern interface, all needed
> >   modern features to start coding with most popular languages and easy
> >   to use for basic usages
> > - Emacs Vanilla: All the new features are still there, but deactivate
> >   to not break anything
>
> I'm personally not against the idea of having a separate backwards
> compatibility mode.
>
> But I guess we would need to pull in several third-party packages to
> have a modern "batteries included" Emacs.  AFAIK, that is
> unfortunately not possible given the copyright assignment requirement.
> But perhaps a default "modern" mode could be a bit less ambitious.
>
> Best regards,
> Stefan Kangas
>
>

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regards,

Tim

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Tim Cross