From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, sbaugh@catern.com
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "New user" customize group?
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2022 00:22:57 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <eef70e79-2b07-8101-5af0-4e30f1f8ac09@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83y1zzsqb2.fsf@gnu.org>
On 20.04.2022 18:54, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Some settings which new users are most likely to be interested in
>> changing: the theme, the default face, enabling cua-mode, linum-mode,
>> tab-bar-mode, etc.
> Those are your opinions. I'm sure many will disagree and point out
> other settings new users will most likely want to customize. For
> example, CUA and tab bars are probably quite controversial.
>
> That said, I wouldn't want to discourage anyone from trying to come up
> with such a group, so feel free to work on that, and thank you for
> your interest in Emacs and its new users.
>
I've just looked through the list of proposed choices on
https://emacs.amodernist.com/ (it has come up on Reddit again), and that
set looks pretty reasonable. At least the sections General and
Programming. Maybe Writing as well. The rest seems not so widely applicable.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-02 21:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-20 14:16 "New user" customize group? sbaugh
2022-04-20 15:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-02 21:22 ` Dmitry Gutov [this message]
2022-09-02 21:36 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-09-02 22:08 ` Dmitry Gutov
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