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Re: Gather a list of confusions beginner tend to have
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Yuan Fu |
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Re: Gather a list of confusions beginner tend to have |
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Thu, 10 Sep 2020 19:20:34 -0400 |
>
> I don't think this scales. Emacs has thousands of options, I'm
> guessing hundreds of them are important for the audience you have in
> mind. You will get a huge set of many options that people with
> "TL;DR" state of mind will never be able to review, let alone decide
> what is for them.
I think there are a few configurations that a beginner would want to change
right after he starts Emacs, usually very basic settings. If you think it’s a
good idea, I can go to reddit and ask what people missed when then started
using Emacs for the first few minutes.
FWIW, here is a demo of the guide: https://youtu.be/0qMskTAR2aw
The demo inserts some configurations into ~/.emacs.d/init.el after completion.
>
> The grouping of the options must be based on some "themes" or similar,
> to be useful. The challenge is, of course, to come up with a useful
> list of such "themes", and then decide which options should each theme
> enable.
Others has described the out-of-the-box experience of doom Emacs, it seems to
me that such job is better done by a “distribution” of Emacs than by vanilla
Emacs. OTHO, vanilla Emacs could add a tiny guide like I proposed to more or
less improve the life for those who started Emacs without reading any tutorial
on the internet.
Yuan
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