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    > If you want to make configuration easy to the end-users, you need to
    > start with their needs, and not with the old textual configuration
    > files.  It is one area where MS Windows and Mac programmers tend to be
    > better than Unix programmers.

    But I (as a programmer-style user) simply hate those interfaces because
    I have no way to relate them to the real underlying concepts so that
    I end up forced to use the "user-friendly" interface all the time,
    with all its limitations.

Could you move this theoretical abstract discussion off of emacs-devel?