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Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs
From: |
Alfred M. Szmidt |
Subject: |
Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs |
Date: |
Thu, 17 Sep 2020 08:24:22 -0400 |
> It shouldn't be super intrusive if there is no .emacs, since it is
> quite common to fire up Emacs without a .emacs.
I think we should find a compromise here. If an experienced user stats
emacs without a .emacs present, he/she may disable this somehow (maybe
with --no-splash ?)
I think that would be annoying -- if I log in on a new machine that
I've never used, I'm sure I wont remeber passing any special switches
to Emacs to start it.
Why not just have it on the splash screen if there is no .emacs; and
if there is a .emacs remove that blurb. We could add one or two lines
along the lines of M-x recover-session:
If an Emacs session crashed recently, type M-x recover-session RET
to recover the files you were editing.
E.g., (actual wording left for someone else) if there is no .emacs, we
show:
You do not have a personal Emacs configuration file, you can go
[Vanilla], start the [configuration wizard], or try Emacs with a
different theme [different-theme-mode].
And if there is, we skip it. And have some means of getting to the
wizard from the menu-bar, maybe even a way of selecting a list of
themes there too..
This wouldn't change how Emacs behaves, but still allow new or
experienced users to fiddle.
- A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Nicola Manca, 2020/09/17
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2020/09/17
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Nicola Manca, 2020/09/17
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs,
Alfred M. Szmidt <=
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Thibaut Verron, 2020/09/17
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2020/09/17
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Thibaut Verron, 2020/09/17
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2020/09/17
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Thibaut Verron, 2020/09/17
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2020/09/17
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Stefan Kangas, 2020/09/18
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2020/09/18
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Thibaut Verron, 2020/09/18
- Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2020/09/18