Re: Interactive guide for new users

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Elias Mårtenson <lokedhs@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2020 17:16:47 +0800
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>, 
> emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
>  "Not now" would not do anything, so the initial greeting would be executed 
>  again the next time Emacs is started.  And "Don't show this again" would 
>  create an empty ~/.emacs / ~/.emacs.d/init.el, so the initial greeting 
>  would not be executed again.
> 
> At the risk of adding to the bikeshedding, may I ask that if you click on 
> "don't display again", the UI displays a
> brief explanation that it created the file and where it is? 
> 
> It's a pet peeve of mine because in many applications I have selected such 
> options accidentally and then had
> no way to find out how to get back to the original state. 

Perhaps a better way would be to have a menu item that "displays
again" the initial greeting?  (That could be in addition to the brief
explanation you propose displaying.)