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A new filter-based customization interface


From: Moakt Temporary Email
Subject: A new filter-based customization interface
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2024 03:37:55 +0000

Hi everyone,

I am proposing a new beginner-friendly customization interface, which would 
make emacs more attractive for newcomers, be it actual developers, future 
developers to be, and even non-developers (writers, students, professors, 
teachers, etc.), and any lambda person having interest in using emacs.

I added a screenshot of what such an interface might look like (which is better 
than words).
https://justpaste.it/fdau4.

The main idea of this customization interface is to help users quickly and 
easily customize emacs for the actual task(s) they need, by providing familiar 
filters so they can quickly select and access the relevant customizations.

For example, they can select “irc”, “ide”, “agenda”, “completion”, “version 
control”, “c++”, etc, to filter the customizations relevant to use emacs as an 
IRC client, IDE, etc.

Today this not possible, and would require new users days and weeks to 
configure emacs, which would discourage and thus discard lot of them from using 
emacs.

Do you think this is something achievable in emacs ?
Do you think the actual customization interface can be enhanced to include 
these changes ? Or should it be a new separate interface ?

I have added all the details about this idea here:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2024-12/msg00174.html
(It is too long to read, that is why I am sending this separate message).

Thank you




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