Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly

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On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 12:56:17 +0200, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> Some of the ``cool stuff'' is turned off because the veteran users
> find it so annoying that they protest vociferously each time someone
> suggests them to be turned on by default.

And this is the wrong point of view. I'm a veteran user. I can turn  
anything off I don't like, but a newbie cannot turn the useful things on  
until he gets to know emacs better. The problem is they usually give up  
(at least the ones I met), because they miss the convenience features!

I support turning every useful feature on by default. I don't really see  
how a veteran user can find anything annoying. I can put some lines into  
my emacs and I won't see that thing ever again.

Newbies first! Veterans can fix anything they don't like.

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