From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Gather a list of confusions beginner tend to have Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:13:36 -0400 Message-ID: References: <875z8ortot.fsf@gkayaalp.com> <83ft7rkp9e.fsf@gnu.org> <871rjbrpt9.fsf@gkayaalp.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="14362"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: self@gkayaalp.com, eliz@gnu.org, casouri@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Praharsh Suryadevara Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 11 06:14:23 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 1kGaS7-0003bv-1W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 11 Sep 2020 06:14:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60816 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kGaS6-0000JE-2l for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:14:22 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38812) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kGaRN-0007iI-Ml for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:13:37 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:46384) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kGaRN-00010P-Bm; Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:13:37 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kGaRM-00040h-68; Fri, 11 Sep 2020 00:13:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: (message from Praharsh Suryadevara on Wed, 9 Sep 2020 11:06:35 -0500) 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:255075 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > The point I believe in is, *It possible to make emacs easier for new users > to be able to start working in emacs from the beginning without sacrificing > any functionality for old users* > This need not come from changing the defaults, but rather from a startup > wizard or a profile which *sets the bindings/preferences according to what > the user wants.* It sounds nice in principle. However, rebinding keys in Emacs is hard because the space of bindings is so populated. You have to delete the binding for some command. As a beginner you might think that is easy since there are so many keys you will never use -- but the commands you guessed you don't want might be keys you will later want to learn. -- Dr Richard Stallman Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)