Amusingly, the tagline for Emacs Starter Kit is “Because the Emacs defaults are not so great sometimes.”

On 02/03/2016 11:46 AM, Clément Pit--Claudel wrote:
> On 02/03/2016 11:24 AM, Drew Adams wrote:
>> Thinking first about defaults or DWIM is wrong, IMO.  We
>> should think first about how users can change the behavior,
>> including on the fly.
> 
> I don't agree. This leads to Emacs being painful to use without large amounts of customization. Do many Emacs devs use an empty or almost empty .emacs?
> Customizability is a strength, but the popularity of pre-packaged Emacs configurations (prelude, Emacs starter kit, Graphene, and countless .emacs.d repositories) says something about good defaults.
> 
> Clément.
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