Re: $EDITOR to open at file end?

[Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>]

On 2015-03-09T16:14:20+1100, Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com> said:

BP> I would expect newcomers to have small init files.

Well, a number of newcomers nowadays are starting out by using 
prebuilt configs of some description, e.g.

https://github.com/bbatsov/prelude

or

https://github.com/syl20bnr/spacemacs

which those newcomers feel helps them getting started with 
Emacs. i've seen several arguments both for and against such 
things; personally, i think it's great that members of the Emacs 
community are trying to help ease some newcomers' transition to 
Emacs. Some people work best by starting out in a relatively 
familiar environment from which they can gradually move away, 
rather than having to learn a whole lot of new behaviours 
simultaneously.

 BP> It is us old BP> timers that have collected up much lint in 
 them over the years.  BP> I have been using Emacs since version 
 18.

:-) i think i first started using Emacs around some version 20 
release, though it's only in the last several years that i've been 
making increasingly heavy use of it. Still, yes, a lot of cruft 
built up until i started using org-babel to organise my config; 
that, together with being able to use package.el to manage the 
installation and update of almost all of the many extensions i 
use, has meant that there are increasingly fewer bits of cruft for 
me to manage. :-)


Alexis.