On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 12:51 AM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:
> My part solution is to have several default Emacs "personalities" - or
> perhaps better called "Emacsicalities" - perhaps 2 or 3 of them.  Each
> one would be implemented by a Lisp file setting certain defaults.  So,
> the "CUA Emacsicality" would enable cua-mode, and maybe one or two other
> things, "Classic Emacsicality" would leave all settings at their
> optimum-for-experts.  The startup screen would prompt the user to chose
> his desired Emacsicality, but would at the same time encourage her to
> switch to "classic" for the ultimate experience.  Obviously, you'd set
> some sort of option for this after the first 2 or 3 times.
>
> However, like everything else in Emacs, good ideas only happen when the
> person with the idea implements it.  Maybe I should try this once Emacs
> 23's been released.

Have no fear, you are not alone on this road. May friends be with you!

(I think I might have sent this to Emacs devel once, not sure.)