From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A modern-mode? Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 19:28:53 +0300 Message-ID: <83d02l7kje.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87v9ge3tet.fsf@gkayaalp.com> <83sgbh7py4.fsf@gnu.org> <874knxsqc6.fsf@gnus.org> <83imcd7mi9.fsf@gnu.org> <83h7rx7lgy.fsf@gnu.org> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="30705"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: self@gkayaalp.com, larsi@gnus.org, ams@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Andrea Corallo Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 16 18:30:12 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 1kIaJv-0007r8-Vb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2020 18:30:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50282 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kIaJv-0006GA-11 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2020 12:30:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54382) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kIaIi-0005LP-25 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Sep 2020 12:28:56 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:44410) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kIaIe-0000zy-0T; Wed, 16 Sep 2020 12:28:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1393 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kIaIV-0001Z1-Ak; Wed, 16 Sep 2020 12:28:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Andrea Corallo on Wed, 16 Sep 2020 16:17:03 +0000) 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:255907 Archived-At: > From: Andrea Corallo > Cc: larsi@gnus.org, self@gkayaalp.com, ams@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2020 16:17:03 +0000 > > > Why does it have to be a command-line option (that isn't --eval)? > > I imagine myself in the condition of giving a suggestion to a colleague > for trying out Emacs. It's very easy to suggest like '-m'. IMO it is > already considerably more complex to start explaining --eval... or the > .emacs equivalent. And I'm thinking to a colleague, if I think to > someone less computer skilled it's even worst. You don't need to explain anything, just create a .emacs file for them with that one line. This is what I do in such cases. The advantage is that the users don't need to remember any switches, and can invoke Emacs from their desktop icons.