Re: Some developement questions

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: hw <hw@adminart.net>
> Cc: spacibba@aol.com,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2018 03:00:32 +0200
> 
> How do we make such proposals?  Should we post some or all of our
> settings here, including self-written functions we call with non-default
> key bindings?  What are the users we should have in mind?

My idea is to start with identifying particular classes of users, in
terms of stuff they mostly do in Emacs, perhaps with a second
gradation into 2 or 3 proficiency levels.  Then making a list of
settings each class/level generally wants to change from the built-in
defaults.  When we have that, we could step back and see what to do
with the data we collected.  For some, we might decide we want to
change the defaults, end of story.  For others, we should discuss in
what form(s) to expose the relevant options to each such group of
users.

That is just one idea, of course; other ideas for making progress are
welcome.

> (add-to-list 'auto-mode-alist '("\\.org\\'" . org-mode))

This is already in the defaults.

> (setq scroll-margin 0)

This is the default.

> (setq Man-width 75)

Emacs nowadays calculates the width dynamically, depending on the
dimensions of the window.

> (load "~/emacs/my-mark-line")

This is not really a setting ;-)