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: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 23:41:24 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4be18b5f-dc07-2703-a2de-1ed08916ebdf@gmail.com> <20200921170740.GA3551@protected.rcdrun.com> <20200922062437.GM6402@protected.rcdrun.com> <83zh5hx5qf.fsf@gnu.org> 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="40537"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: nicola.manca85@gmail.com, bugs@gnu.support, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 23 05:42:44 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 1kKvg4-000APN-Kw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2020 05:42:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41064 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKvg3-0004VF-MG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 23:42:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38242) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKveo-0003Ci-A8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 23:41:26 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:36579) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKven-0002yd-UV; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 23:41:25 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kKvem-00066r-Eo; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 23:41:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: <83zh5hx5qf.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 22 Sep 2020 17:10:00 +0300) 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:256344 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. ]]] > You personally may find it annoying, but please keep in mind that many > applications nowadays offer to take the user through a similar process > first time the application is started after installation. So I > presume many newcomers to Emacs will not be surprised by that, and > maybe will even expect something like that. If wr make it optional to run the configuration wizard, then the worst annoyance it can cause is saying no, just once after each installation. -- 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)