Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly

[David Kastrup]

Shawn Betts <sabetts@vee-see-en.bee-see.see-a> writes:

> PT <mailshield.gg@mailnull.com> writes:
>
>> By arrow keys I also mean text selection with shift+arrow keys,
>> etc. It is  pretty standard in modern systems, so it should be turned
>> on by default.
>
> Are you saying Emacs is not a modern system? Should we add a Start
> button to Emacs too? It'd help newbs feel warm and fuzzy and its
> pretty standard on "modern systems."

How about a "Startle" button?  It could randomly call a function such
as zone, insert-zippyism, psychoanalyze-pinhead...

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum