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Interactive guide for new users (was: Re: Gather a list of confusions be
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Stefan Kangas |
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Interactive guide for new users (was: Re: Gather a list of confusions beginner tend to have) |
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Thu, 10 Sep 2020 17:20:59 -0700 |
Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com> writes:
> 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.
Such a beginners guide (wizard) is an excellent idea. And it is great
that you actually have code. Let's see what others think, but I will
optimistically add my comments below.
To my mind, your draft has about the right amount of complexity and
options, but we should consider carefully what to include.
I propose to consider if any of these are suitable for inclusion:
- scroll-conservatively, visible-bell
- desktop-save-mode, savehist-mode, save-place-mode, midnight-mode, uniquify
- auto-image-file-mode, display-time-mode, show-paren-mode
- (f)ido-mode, company-mode
It's a slippery slope, but if done carefully one could perhaps add just
a few more things without weighing it down too much. Taking out the
toggle to disable the menu bar and tool bar would save some space.
> 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.
The idea of profiles/custom themes is orthogonal to the guide you are
proposing, IMO. You could set a profile and then tweak the options it
gives you.
- Re: Gather a list of confusions beginner tend to have, (continued)
- Re: Gather a list of confusions beginner tend to have, Richard Stallman, 2020/09/11
- Re: Gather a list of confusions beginner tend to have, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/11
- Re: Gather a list of confusions beginner tend to have, Stefan Monnier, 2020/09/11
- Re: Gather a list of confusions beginner tend to have, Richard Stallman, 2020/09/11
- Re: Gather a list of confusions beginner tend to have, Emanuel Berg, 2020/09/11
- Re: Gather a list of confusions beginner tend to have, tomas, 2020/09/10
- Re: Gather a list of confusions beginner tend to have, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/09
- Re: Gather a list of confusions beginner tend to have, Yuan Fu, 2020/09/10
- Interactive guide for new users (was: Re: Gather a list of confusions beginner tend to have),
Stefan Kangas <=
- Re: Interactive guide for new users (was: Re: Gather a list of confusions beginner tend to have), Gregory Heytings, 2020/09/11
- Re: Interactive guide for new users, Phil Sainty, 2020/09/11
- Re: Interactive guide for new users (was: Re: Gather a list of confusions beginner tend to have), Yuan Fu, 2020/09/11
- Re: Interactive guide for new users (was: Re: Gather a list of confusions beginner tend to have), Gregory Heytings, 2020/09/11
- Re: Interactive guide for new users (was: Re: Gather a list of confusions beginner tend to have), Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/11
- Re: Interactive guide for new users (was: Re: Gather a list of confusions beginner tend to have), Gregory Heytings, 2020/09/11
- Re: Interactive guide for new users (was: Re: Gather a list of confusions beginner tend to have), Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/11
- Re: Interactive guide for new users (was: Re: Gather a list of confusions beginner tend to have), Gregory Heytings, 2020/09/11
- Re: Interactive guide for new users (was: Re: Gather a list of confusions beginner tend to have), Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/11
- Re: Interactive guide for new users (was: Re: Gather a list of confusions beginner tend to have), Gregory Heytings, 2020/09/11