Re: Making Emacs more friendly to newcomers

[Po Lu]

조성빈 <address@hidden> writes:

> I personally find that the stance of trying to not breaking anything is
> one of the big reasons that Emacs has a nonusable-without-configuration UX.
> Major version numbers are there for a reason… and we can expect for annoyed
> people to set some variables to get old behavior.

Major version numbers are there to announce new features.  With massive
changes (such as the ones that are being proposed here), you can't just
"flip a variable to get the old behaviour".  Especially people with 20
years of muscle memory and 200,000+ line configs.

Again: what's wrong with the "if you're new to Emacs, click here" button?