From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ams@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 09:38:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4be18b5f-dc07-2703-a2de-1ed08916ebdf@gmail.com> <3774c435-60d6-a958-77d1-a831599c85c5@gmail.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="8724"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: nicola.manca85@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: thibaut.verron@gmail.com Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 17 15:40:09 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 1kIu8u-0002C9-T2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2020 15:40:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59848 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kIu8t-0005J3-QL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2020 09:40:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:57854) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kIu7B-00034c-AR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Sep 2020 09:38:21 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:36174) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kIu7A-0005tH-V2; Thu, 17 Sep 2020 09:38:20 -0400 Original-Received: from ams by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kIu7A-00079N-Bm; Thu, 17 Sep 2020 09:38:20 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Thibaut Verron on Thu, 17 Sep 2020 15:26:56 +0200) 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:255995 Archived-At: > The original proposal read to me that the original splash screen would > be something different when you have .emacs, or when you do not. So is yours, no? I was thnking, where >> is the part that gets added when there is no .emacs -- this keeps existing behaviour, and isn't as intrusive. It could be listed under Useful tasks too. Welcome to GNU Emacs, a part of the GNU operating system. To follow a link, click Mouse-1 on it, or move to it and type RET. To quit a partially entered command, type Control-g. >> You don't have a personal Emacs configuration file, would you >> like to run the configuration wizard, just use vanilla Emacs, or >> try a different default? Important Help menu items: Emacs Tutorial Learn basic Emacs keystroke commands Read the Emacs Manual View the Emacs manual using Info (Non)Warranty GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY Copying Conditions Conditions for redistributing and changing Emacs More Manuals / Ordering Manuals How to order printed manuals from the FSF Useful tasks: Visit New File Specify a new file’s name, to edit the file Open Home Directory Open your home directory, to operate on its files Customize Startup Change initialization settings including this screen GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-unknown-openbsd, GTK+ Version 3.24.20) of 2020-05-09 Copyright (C) 2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc. If an Emacs session crashed recently, type M-x recover-session RET to recover the files you were editing.