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From: | Gregory Heytings |
Subject: | Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs |
Date: | Thu, 17 Sep 2020 09:07:03 +0000 |
User-agent: | Alpine 2.22 (NEB 394 2020-01-19) |
Hi Nicola, Thanks for your proposal!
What about having a startup screen, opening only if no .emacs or other user configuration file is found just saying (the text is just an example):Welcome! This is the first time you run Emacs, please choose how to proceed: [] Go Vanilla! (standard defaults, no customizations) [] Start Configuration Wizard (set-up your .emacs configuration file interactively) [] Try Emacs in enhanced-mode (run with a predefined configuration showing emacs potential)
That's a very good suggestion, thank you! I think it would be better to invert options 2 et 3, with something like:
[] Go Vanilla! [] Choose a predefined configuration [] Create your own configurationOption 2 would present the user with a list of predefined configuration sets: "doom", "quake", "vscode", ...
Option 3 would give the user a way to create a more refined configuration.
This solution would prevent the problem of passing --modern to the emacs exacutable and, beyond that, it could also correspond to emacs -Q, since choosing "Vanilla" would result in a normal clean startup.
IMO this screen should be skipped when the option -Q or -q is passed to Emacs.
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