Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs

[Gregory Heytings via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>]

Hi Nicola,

Thanks for your proposal!

>
> What about having a startup screen, opening only if no .emacs or other 
> user configuration file is found just saying (the text is just an 
> example):
>
> Welcome!
> This is the first time you run Emacs, please choose how to proceed:
>
> [] Go Vanilla!
>  (standard defaults, no customizations)
>
> [] Start Configuration Wizard
>  (set-up your .emacs configuration file interactively)
>
> [] Try Emacs in enhanced-mode
>  (run with a predefined configuration showing emacs potential)
>

That's a very good suggestion, thank you!  I think it would be better to 
invert options 2 et 3, with something like:

[] Go Vanilla!
[] Choose a predefined configuration
[] Create your own configuration

Option 2 would present the user with a list of predefined configuration 
sets: "doom", "quake", "vscode", ...

Option 3 would give the user a way to create a more refined configuration.

>
> This solution would prevent the problem of passing --modern to the emacs 
> exacutable and, beyond that, it could also correspond to emacs -Q, since 
> choosing "Vanilla" would result in a normal clean startup.
>

IMO this screen should be skipped when the option -Q or -q is passed to 
Emacs.