From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2020 23:40:13 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4be18b5f-dc07-2703-a2de-1ed08916ebdf@gmail.com> <20200921170740.GA3551@protected.rcdrun.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="12891"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: nicola.manca85@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Jean Louis Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Sep 22 05:41:08 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 1kKZAy-0003Gr-F8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 05:41:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59004 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKZAx-0005ql-GU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2020 23:41:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:55482) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKZA7-0005Ki-EW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Sep 2020 23:40:15 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:41878) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKZA6-0006S5-Rt; Mon, 21 Sep 2020 23:40:14 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kKZA5-0006sX-KR; Mon, 21 Sep 2020 23:40:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20200921170740.GA3551@protected.rcdrun.com> (message from Jean Louis on Mon, 21 Sep 2020 20:07:40 +0300) 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:256309 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > Welcome! > > This is the first time you run Emacs, please choose how to proceed: > > > > [] Go Vanilla! > > (standard defaults, no customizations) > > > > [] Start Configuration Wizard > > (set-up your .emacs configuration file interactively) > > > > [] Try Emacs in enhanced-mode > > (run with a predefined configuration showing emacs potential) > > > > After this screen, the normal Emacs splash screen could me > > presented. > No please. > I would not like that be included in Emacs. I am installing so many > times Emacs, I need no installation wizards, I understand that you have no need for this -- but why do you object to it? It would only require you to type a couple of characters. Indeed, you could surely bypass that step by copying a certain pre-prepared .emacs file into each new installation. That file would indicate that the choice had already been made. > Why would "Configuration Wizard" be friendlier? I don't find it > friendlier, especially considering that more citizens in many > countries find words like "wizard" not appealing, due to their > beliefs. Please distinguish the behavior of the feature from its name. If we have this feature, we don't HAVE to call it "wizard." But many programs use the term "wizard" for such things -- it seems to be a standard term. I would expect that computer users have got used to it. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)