Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers

[Richard Stallman]

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  > The solution mentioned earlier in the thread can work well: Emacs defaults
  > stay Emacs-like to satisfy the veterans, but if a new user downloads
  > emacs and starts it without a config file then an optional initial config is
  > prominently offered which can ease the transition for new users, make emacs
  > less alien, more similar to existing systems.

I agree this could be a good thing if it is done well.

It would be nice to make it easy for a user's configuration to
select this alternate interface even after making a nontrivial .emacs file
and specifying other parameters.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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