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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: ndame <ndame@protonmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 23:14:37 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1jR5qP-0001S1-65@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
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  > The solution mentioned earlier in the thread can work well: Emacs defaults
  > stay Emacs-like to satisfy the veterans, but if a new user downloads
  > emacs and starts it without a config file then an optional initial config is
  > prominently offered which can ease the transition for new users, make emacs
  > less alien, more similar to existing systems.

I agree this could be a good thing if it is done well.

It would be nice to make it easy for a user's configuration to
select this alternate interface even after making a nontrivial .emacs file
and specifying other parameters.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
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Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-22  3:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 108+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-21 15:27 Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers ndame
2020-04-22  3:14 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-04-27 17:50 ndame
2020-04-27 18:07 ` Arthur Miller
2020-04-28  0:13 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-30  2:26 ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-30  5:58   ` ndame
2020-05-02  2:21     ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-02 15:52       ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-02 15:59         ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-02 17:00           ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-02 18:20             ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-05-02 18:55               ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-04  3:05                 ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-05 14:08                   ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-06  4:46                     ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-06 18:14                       ` Nikita Mogilevsky
2020-05-07  2:48                         ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-02 16:25         ` ndame
2020-05-02 19:04         ` Drew Adams
2020-05-02 19:36           ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-02 20:05             ` Drew Adams
2020-05-02 21:16               ` Arthur Miller
2020-05-02 22:16                 ` Drew Adams
2020-05-03  3:42         ` Richard Stallman
2020-05-05 13:58           ` Arthur Miller
2020-04-20  6:22 ndame
2020-04-20 10:08 ` Po Lu
2020-04-21  1:50   ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-21  2:09     ` Po Lu
2020-04-21  8:44       ` Theodor Thornhill
2020-04-22  4:30         ` Po Lu
2020-04-22  7:01           ` Theodor Thornhill
2020-04-23  3:10             ` Po Lu
2020-04-22 16:45           ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-22 17:16             ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-23  3:11             ` Po Lu
2020-04-23 12:55               ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-24  5:24                 ` Po Lu
2020-04-26 18:40             ` Yuan Fu
2020-04-27  4:00               ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-24  2:34           ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-24  2:39             ` 조성빈
2020-04-24  2:42               ` 조성빈
2020-04-24  7:33               ` Theodor Thornhill
2020-04-25  3:30               ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-25  3:32                 ` 조성빈
2020-04-26  3:19                   ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-26 14:32                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-26 15:14                       ` tomas
2020-04-26 16:32                         ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-26 16:36                           ` tomas
2020-04-21  2:10     ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-21  3:45       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-21  4:44         ` chad
2020-04-22  3:19       ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-22  3:31         ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-16 14:58 "Why is emacs so square?" Drew Adams
2020-04-16 15:34 ` Joseph Garvin
2020-04-17 22:05   ` Ahmed Khanzada
2020-04-19  2:18     ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-19  2:33       ` Po Lu
2020-04-19  4:55         ` ndame
2020-04-19  6:14           ` Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers (was: "Why is emacs so square?") Po Lu
2020-04-19  6:54             ` Eduardo Ochs
2020-04-19  7:22               ` Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers Po Lu
2020-04-19  8:05             ` Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers (was: "Why is emacs so square?") 조성빈
2020-04-19  8:12               ` ndame
2020-04-19  8:21                 ` Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers Po Lu
2020-04-19  8:25                   ` ndame
2020-04-19  9:30                     ` Po Lu
2020-04-19 22:44                     ` Sébastien Gendre
2020-04-20  0:36                       ` Stefan Kangas
2020-04-20  3:32                         ` Tim Cross
2020-04-20  9:54                           ` Po Lu
2020-04-20 13:50                             ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-21  8:52                               ` Po Lu
2020-04-21 13:57                               ` Simen Heggestøyl
2020-04-21 15:36                                 ` Yuan Fu
2020-04-22  3:14                                   ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-22  4:33                                   ` Po Lu
2020-04-23  6:33                                     ` Ahmed Khanzada
2020-04-23 10:14                                       ` Stefan Kangas
2020-04-23 14:55                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-20  4:53                       ` Po Lu
2020-04-20  6:08                         ` 조성빈
2020-04-20  9:53                           ` Po Lu
2020-04-20 13:07                             ` 조성빈
2020-04-20 15:32                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-21  2:06                               ` Po Lu
2020-04-21  2:17                                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-21  4:42                                   ` Po Lu
2020-04-21 13:55                                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-22  4:41                                       ` Po Lu
2020-04-22  8:13                                         ` Sergey Organov
2020-04-22  3:19                                   ` Richard Stallman
2020-04-22 11:33                                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-23  7:04                                   ` Ahmed Khanzada
2020-04-23 14:20                                     ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-23 14:56                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-23 15:32                                       ` Yuan Fu
2020-04-27 16:09                                       ` Arthur Miller
2020-04-27 16:43                                         ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2020-04-20 14:22                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-21 12:43                         ` Sébastien Gendre
2020-04-21 14:38                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-22  1:35                             ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-22  3:26                               ` Stefan Monnier
2020-04-22 13:22                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-22 17:46                                 ` chad
2020-04-22 22:52                                   ` Yuan Fu
2020-04-23  0:12                                     ` chad
2020-04-23  0:49                                       ` Yuan Fu
2020-04-22 17:55                                 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-04-19 13:35                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-19 19:14                     ` Drew Adams
2020-04-19 22:50                     ` Po Lu
2020-04-19  8:16               ` Po Lu

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