From: Andrea Corallo via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
To: Thibaut Verron <thibaut.verron@gmail.com>
Cc: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>,
Nicola Manca <nicola.manca85@gmail.com>,
Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>,
emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2020 08:30:59 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xjfd02ip3r0.fsf@sdf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFsi02TMwaN87MHWS4jN94H94XVF4V_nsiiUdmzrEBEiPzLcyg@mail.gmail.com> (Thibaut Verron's message of "Fri, 18 Sep 2020 20:59:19 +0200")
Thibaut Verron <thibaut.verron@gmail.com> writes:
> Le ven. 18 sept. 2020 à 20:26, Alfred M. Szmidt <ams@gnu.org> a écrit :
>>
>> > On first start, the wizard would offer the option to create an empty
>> > .emacs and never bother you again.
>> >
>> > The issue is that it would bother you on first start, at all.
>>
>> On balance this a good thing, IMO. And if you disagree, it will only
>> bother you once.
>>
>> No, it will bother _each_ and _every_ time I start a new Emacs where I
>> have not done so previously. That is a fairly common situation, both
>> for new users, but also for experienced users who are the majority of
>> Emacs users.
>>
>> Lets not make Emacs annoying to use, OK?
>
> I, for one, would be happy to have a one-click option to set a bunch
> of reasonable defaults whenever I start Emacs on a new device.
+1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-19 8:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 129+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-17 8:50 A proposal for a friendlier Emacs Nicola Manca
2020-09-17 9:04 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-17 9:27 ` Nicola Manca
2020-09-17 12:24 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-17 12:35 ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-17 13:22 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-17 13:26 ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-17 13:31 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-17 13:34 ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-17 14:27 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-18 16:49 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-09-18 18:25 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-18 18:59 ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-18 19:23 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-19 8:37 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-19 9:21 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-19 11:25 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-09-19 15:09 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-19 19:31 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-19 19:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-19 21:37 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-20 6:22 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-20 7:45 ` Ergus via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-20 8:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-20 8:25 ` Ergus
2020-09-21 17:19 ` Jean Louis
2020-09-22 12:59 ` Ergus
2020-09-22 14:11 ` Jean Louis
2020-09-22 17:50 ` Colin Baxter
2020-09-22 18:08 ` Mingde (Matthew) Zeng
2020-09-22 19:12 ` Colin Baxter
2020-09-19 21:04 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-19 21:26 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-20 6:21 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-19 8:30 ` Andrea Corallo via Emacs development discussions. [this message]
2020-09-19 15:50 ` Philip K.
2020-09-20 3:53 ` 황병희
2020-09-17 13:38 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-17 12:40 ` Nicholas Savage
2020-09-17 13:22 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-17 13:28 ` Thibaut Verron
2020-09-17 19:40 ` Mingde (Matthew) Zeng
2020-09-17 9:07 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-17 9:32 ` Nicola Manca
2020-09-17 9:44 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-09-21 20:00 ` Alexander Adolf
2020-09-22 3:38 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-22 20:50 ` Alexander Adolf
2020-09-22 21:54 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-23 14:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-23 14:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-25 13:22 ` Alexander Adolf
2020-09-25 13:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-25 14:43 ` Alexander Adolf
2020-09-25 15:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-26 4:35 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-29 17:08 ` Alexander Adolf
2020-09-29 17:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-30 20:40 ` Alexander Adolf
2020-10-01 12:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-01 16:13 ` Alexander Adolf
2020-10-01 16:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-01 16:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-01 17:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-01 17:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-10-02 16:10 ` Alexander Adolf
2020-10-02 3:51 ` Classifying packages Richard Stallman
2020-09-22 3:38 ` A proposal for a friendlier Emacs Richard Stallman
2020-09-22 20:57 ` Alexander Adolf
2020-09-23 3:44 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-25 12:40 ` Alexander Adolf
2020-09-25 15:22 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-26 4:33 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-26 14:29 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-27 2:43 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-27 19:49 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-28 3:49 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-28 4:50 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-28 22:03 ` Jean Louis
2020-09-29 2:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-29 2:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-29 4:16 ` Jean Louis
2020-09-29 5:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-29 5:45 ` Jean Louis
2020-09-29 14:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-29 15:21 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-20 13:07 ` Arthur Miller
2020-10-20 15:32 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-27 4:32 ` Arthur Miller
2020-10-27 7:50 ` Jean Louis
2020-09-29 7:19 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-29 7:55 ` Jean Louis
2020-09-29 8:23 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-29 8:27 ` Jean Louis
2020-09-29 15:07 ` Jean Louis
2020-09-29 14:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-30 18:36 ` Juri Linkov
2020-09-30 19:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-30 19:50 ` Gregory Heytings via Emacs development discussions.
2020-10-01 7:27 ` Robert Pluim
2020-10-01 13:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-01 14:10 ` Robert Pluim
2020-10-01 12:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-01 14:19 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-02 3:51 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-02 6:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-01 14:13 ` Jean Louis
2020-10-01 14:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-01 16:05 ` dictionary.el could be included in main stream Emacs - " Jean Louis
2020-10-02 11:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-04 17:36 ` Torsten Hilbrich
2020-10-01 18:47 ` Juri Linkov
2020-09-28 22:05 ` Jean Louis
2020-09-21 17:07 ` Jean Louis
2020-09-22 3:40 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-22 6:22 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2020-09-23 3:43 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-22 6:24 ` Jean Louis
2020-09-22 14:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-22 14:22 ` Jean Louis
2020-09-22 14:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-22 14:52 ` Jean Louis
2020-09-22 15:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-22 16:03 ` Jean Louis
2020-09-22 16:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-23 3:41 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-22 15:44 ` Jean Louis
2020-09-23 3:41 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-23 14:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
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