From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mathias Dahl Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:56:01 +0100 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111404411 22332 80.91.229.2 (21 Mar 2005 11:26:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:26:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 21 12:26:51 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDL3T-0003wX-Lw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 12:26:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DDKue-0006vf-08 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 06:17:36 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news1.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Trace: individual.net iY/AZbyBlXkoqGJvrEAyCQSyqoC0f0AxppkUOAyoc1SLEEwehw User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:EjQWcIZKHytHQcu+HNADMID2MQo= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129514 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:25066 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25066 PT writes: > I'm sure I'm not the first to come up with this idea, but I think it > really would help if emacs had a newbie-mode which made it easier for > newbies to get acquainted with it. > [...] > Useful general settings should be turned on by default. column > numbers, global font lock, etc. > [...] > So I'd like a single command which I could put into a newbies .emacs file: Why not just make a couple of pre-defined .emacs files for users coming from other backgrouns, and post them up on EmacwWiki (or whatever)? Then you could have a coming-from-windows.emacs and a coming-from-mac.emacs or used-ms-word-alot.emacs, etc etc. /Mathias