Re: A modern-mode?

[Gregory Heytings]

Hi Andrea,

> following recent discussions I've started toying with what I've pushed 
> on scratch/modern-mode.
>
> The (not so new) idea is to have a global minor mode to enable other 
> code we already have in Emacs core to make Emacs a little more 
> friendly/modern to new comers.  IOW this is to enable some non 
> excessively invasive features to help people getting into the Emacs 
> universe.
>
> ATM this modern-mode enables: column-number-mode, delete-selection-mode, 
> fido-mode, global-auto-revert-mode, show-paren-mode, winner-mode and 
> windmove, plus is binding ibuffer to C-x C-b.
[...]
> Feedback is welcome

I'm biased, but I do not think this is better than the guided tour / 
interactive guide proposal that Yuan Fu and me sent a few days ago.

The problem of "modern-mode" is that, as the traffic on this list during 
the last days has shown, different people have different ideas of what 
"modern" is, and might want to turn each feature on or off.  Some might 
want a dark theme and others not, some might want tabs and others not, and 
so forth.  So it is better to give something more refined than a binary 
modern/non-modern choice.

Moreover the guided tour proposal introduces the most important concepts 
of Emacs, and explains how to find help, which I believe is very important 
if the point is the help people getting (and staying!) into the Emacs 
universe.