Re: Emacs Newbie Info Pages

[Peter Oliver]

On Thu, 12 Sep 2024, Corwin Brust wrote:

> Would it make sense to have a `emacs-welcome-new-user' mode which
> "collects" configuration defaults appropriate for new users and
> provides means to enable (and, perhaps, disable) them en masse?

That seems like it would be a headache to curate, to me.

How about a customisation variable apply-defaults-from-emacs-major-version, 
that would be automatically set to the current version when the init file is 
written for the first time?  With that in place, defaults in new Emacs versions 
could be changed more freely, and users could opt-in to updated defaults 
when/if they’re ready.

With this, the :version argument to defcustom would no-longer be sufficient, of 
course.  You’d need, say, a :history argument containing a list of version and 
default-prior-to-that-version pairs.

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Peter Oliver