Re: A proposal for a friendlier Emacs

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 14:22:03 +0000
> CC: rms@gnu.org, nicola.manca85@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> 
> >You personally may find it annoying, but please keep in mind that many
> >applications nowadays offer to take the user through a similar process
> >first time the application is started after installation.  So I
> >presume many newcomers to Emacs will not be surprised by that, and
> >maybe will even expect something like that.
> 
> To make a survey online today is not so hard and not so expensive, turn 
> advertising on and ask people to answer few questions in exchange for free 
> software download, you can give them Emacs as award.

It isn't a matter of opinion, it is a matter of fact: many
applications offer to configure them the first time you invoke them.
I know because I install them.  Any other user will see the same.

That is all I was saying: that this kind of feature is quite
widespread nowadays.