Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers

[Dmitry Gutov]

On 22.04.2020 06:19, Richard Stallman wrote:
>    > 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.

Given that I've had multiple *useful* proposal about changing defaults 
shot down because of the worry that existing users might be 
inconvenienced (having been used to the current behavior), it's a false 
dichotomy.