Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers

[Richard Stallman]

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  > 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.

This is entirely logical
if our main priority is how successful Emacs is,
rather than what it does.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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