Re: A modern-mode?

[Gregory Heytings]

> > I see what you mean, but I do not see how this would help newcomers.
>
> I think one easily accessible ready to go set of more modern/friendly 
> defaults can help new users getting started.

The problem is that Emacs developers would have to agree on what that set 
of "more modern / friendly defaults" is, which is unlikely to happen. 
Again, different people have (very!) different ideas of what "modern / 
friendly" is.

A few examples, in the defaults you suggested:

- fido-mode: in another thread Eli explained that in his opinion 
icomplete's behavior is not intuitive enough for newcomers, and I (and 
probably others) agree with what he said

- global-auto-revert-mode: I would strongly object to this, having your 
editor doing something without asking you for a confirmation is not 
something many newcomers would find intuitive

- winner-mode: I don't understand why you would turn this on, IMO having 
C-c <left> and C-c <right> to undo window changes is useless for a 
newcomer, and C-c <left> / <right> is not a keybinding they can guess by 
themselves.