Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 21.04.2020 05:06, Po Lu wrote:
> > No, it doesn’t - see previous comments.
> Yes it does.  I can't be bothered to put an extra line in my .emacs for
> every tiny change users decide they want.

Please keep in mind that if we hope to make Emacs reach, say, 30% share 
among programmers, the extra 25% would be new users.

So for all questions about changing defaults, we should ask ourselves, 
do we prioritize the existing 5% (or 3%, as SO poll says) userbase that 
will naturally continue shrinking over the years, or whether we prefer 
to make life easier and more productive for the users that should come 
later.

And it's not like existing, long-time users can't grow to like the new 
defaults (even after a certain amount of grumbling). I think the Xref 
example shows that.