From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Simon Pugnet <simon@polaris64.net>
Cc: "Philip K." <philipk@posteo.net>,
Daniel Fleischer <danflscr@gmail.com>,
Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>,
Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
John Yates <john@yates-sheets.org>
Subject: Could Emacs Have a Set-up Wizard?
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2021 18:59:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmmSWy0ZbR-K641RbqGgbtS8XzSi6c+MEVTHrbUt+BRRBA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lf4dwudp.fsf@polaris64.net>
[I changed the subject.]
Simon Pugnet <simon@polaris64.net> writes:
> I'm not sure if this is of interest but I just thought I'd throw this
> into the discussion:
> https://blog.polaris64.net/post/could-emacs-have-a-set-up-wizard/.
Thanks. Unfortunately, the repository you link in the above blog post
now gives 404. Could you provide a working link?
> I thought about a "wizard" which would help newcomers to choose from a
> set of profiles in a simple manner, and this blog post details a little
> proof-of-concept I came up with. The idea was that it would keep out of
> the way as much as possible so that existing users could easily ignore
> it or disable the entry on the splash screen if necessary, however it
> would still be prominent enough for newcomers to see it.
This is orthogonal to the discussion about profiles, but I agree that
it's a good idea.
There is a discussion about it here, and perhaps you can find more in
the archives:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2020-09/msg00601.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-03 16:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-03 15:29 Gitlab Migration Simon Pugnet
2021-09-03 16:59 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2021-09-03 17:09 ` Could Emacs Have a Set-up Wizard? Simon Pugnet
2021-09-03 19:35 ` Joost Kremers
2021-09-03 23:15 ` Jim Porter
2021-09-04 9:34 ` Daniel Martín
2021-09-04 13:16 ` Simon Pugnet
2021-09-05 3:44 ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-04 3:27 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-04 13:25 ` Simon Pugnet
2021-09-04 14:21 ` Daniel Fleischer
2021-09-04 15:33 ` Simon Pugnet
2021-09-04 16:44 ` Yuan Fu
2021-09-04 17:06 ` Simon Pugnet
2021-09-05 4:34 ` Arthur Miller
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2021-09-04 14:53 Simon Pugnet
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