From: Peter Oliver <p.d.oliver@mavit.org.uk>
To: Corwin Brust <corwin@bru.st>
Cc: summeremacs@summerstar.me, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs Newbie Info Pages
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2024 13:37:05 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c2824290-c86e-557d-8c8d-e2becf30f77c@mavit.org.uk> (raw)
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On Thu, 12 Sep 2024, Corwin Brust wrote:
> Would it make sense to have a `emacs-welcome-new-user' mode which
> "collects" configuration defaults appropriate for new users and
> provides means to enable (and, perhaps, disable) them en masse?
That seems like it would be a headache to curate, to me.
How about a customisation variable apply-defaults-from-emacs-major-version, that would be automatically set to the current version when the init file is written for the first time? With that in place, defaults in new Emacs versions could be changed more freely, and users could opt-in to updated defaults when/if they’re ready.
With this, the :version argument to defcustom would no-longer be sufficient, of course. You’d need, say, a :history argument containing a list of version and default-prior-to-that-version pairs.
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Peter Oliver
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-09-22 12:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-09-12 17:30 Emacs Newbie Info Pages Summer Emacs
2024-09-12 18:26 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-09-12 18:45 ` Summer Emacs
2024-09-12 19:17 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-09-13 6:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-13 7:36 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-09-13 7:39 ` Summer Emacs
2024-09-13 14:46 ` Juergen Fenn
2024-09-13 12:28 ` Thanos Apollo
2024-09-12 18:29 ` Corwin Brust
2024-09-12 19:00 ` Summer Emacs
2024-09-13 2:24 ` Suhail Singh
2024-09-17 3:47 ` Richard Stallman
2024-09-17 10:58 ` Summer Emacs
2024-09-17 13:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-17 14:12 ` Summer Emacs
2024-09-17 14:48 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-09-17 16:45 ` Summer Emacs
2024-09-18 1:09 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-09-17 15:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-17 16:49 ` Summer Emacs
2024-09-17 17:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-19 3:51 ` Richard Stallman
2024-09-19 9:45 ` Summer Emacs
2024-09-13 6:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-13 7:45 ` Summer Emacs
2024-09-13 10:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-13 11:20 ` Summer Emacs
2024-09-13 11:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-13 12:09 ` Summer Emacs
2024-09-13 13:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-18 8:13 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-09-18 20:02 ` Juergen Fenn
2024-09-20 2:39 ` Emanuel Berg
2024-09-22 12:37 ` Peter Oliver [this message]
2024-09-22 14:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-13 6:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
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