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 23:43:17 -0400 Message-ID: References: <4be18b5f-dc07-2703-a2de-1ed08916ebdf@gmail.com> <20200921170740.GA3551@protected.rcdrun.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="8107"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: nicola.manca85@gmail.com, bugs@gnu.support, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: ams@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 23 05:44:45 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 1kKvi1-00020v-J0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 23 Sep 2020 05:44:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46140 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKvi0-0006fx-LT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 23:44:44 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38684) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKvgg-0005Qr-4K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 23:43:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:36653) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kKvgf-0003Ko-PZ; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 23:43:21 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1kKvgb-0006OZ-1H; Tue, 22 Sep 2020 23:43:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: (ams@gnu.org) 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:256346 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. ]]] > In the above example, you need to get through _two_ screens, one is to > quit the "configuration screen", and then you need to quit the splash > screen before you can use emacs. It is unfriendly to the user to > demand them to spend time, even the slightest, to configure Emacs > before they can use it -- today there is a nice balance. We can surely take account of this point when designing the little details. -- 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)