Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers

[Po Lu]

Tim Cross <address@hidden> writes:

> How will any of this differ from the many existing canned default setups 
> already available? In fact, given the limitation on only using Emacs built-in 
> packages, is it even possible to do a setup which is even close to some of 
> these canned setups, many of which appear to
> be targeted at new users (spacemacs, doom, prelude, etc). Are we just talking 
> about a GNU canned configuration?

More of a few well thought-out tips that are easily discoverable by
users.

>  But I guess we would need to pull in several third-party packages to
>  have a modern "batteries included" Emacs.  AFAIK, that is
>  unfortunately not possible given the copyright assignment requirement.
>  But perhaps a default "modern" mode could be a bit less ambitious.

Agreed, but I believe most package maintainers would be willing to
assign copyright to the FSF.  (For instance Eglot would count as an
important package, and it's in ELPA).