From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Kangas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 16:49:41 +0000 Message-ID: References: <4be18b5f-dc07-2703-a2de-1ed08916ebdf@gmail.com> <3774c435-60d6-a958-77d1-a831599c85c5@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="29146"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: nicola.manca85@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Alfred M. 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That's all we know. X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:256118 Archived-At: ams@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes: > On first start, the wizard would offer the option to create an empty > .emacs and never bother you again. > > The issue is that it would bother you on first start, at all. On balance this a good thing, IMO. And if you disagree, it will only bother you once. > The wizard is not the splash screen. I'm suggesting that a link to > selecting vanilla emacs as your default, or some other theme is to be > included in the splash screen; so Emacs behaves the same no matter if > you have .emacs or not. Many users never see the splash screen, for example because they don't pay attention or because they always run "emacs foo.c".