Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs

[Andrea Corallo]

Thibaut Verron <thibaut.verron@gmail.com> writes:

> Le ven. 18 sept. 2020 à 20:26, Alfred M. Szmidt <ams@gnu.org> a écrit :
>>
>>    >    On first start, the wizard would offer the option to create an empty
>>    >    .emacs and never bother you again.
>>    >
>>    > The issue is that it would bother you on first start, at all.
>>
>>    On balance this a good thing, IMO.  And if you disagree, it will only
>>    bother you once.
>>
>> No, it will bother _each_ and _every_ time I start a new Emacs where I
>> have not done so previously.  That is a fairly common situation, both
>> for new users, but also for experienced users who are the majority of
>> Emacs users.
>>
>> Lets not make Emacs annoying to use, OK?
>
> I, for one, would be happy to have a one-click option to set a bunch
> of reasonable defaults whenever I start Emacs on a new device.

+1