Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs

[Thibaut Verron]

Le ven. 18 sept. 2020 à 20:26, Alfred M. Szmidt <ams@gnu.org> a écrit :
>
>    >    On first start, the wizard would offer the option to create an empty
>    >    .emacs and never bother you again.
>    >
>    > The issue is that it would bother you on first start, at all.
>
>    On balance this a good thing, IMO.  And if you disagree, it will only
>    bother you once.
>
> No, it will bother _each_ and _every_ time I start a new Emacs where I
> have not done so previously.  That is a fairly common situation, both
> for new users, but also for experienced users who are the majority of
> Emacs users.
>
> Lets not make Emacs annoying to use, OK?

I, for one, would be happy to have a one-click option to set a bunch
of reasonable defaults whenever I start Emacs on a new device.