Re: Folding emacsclient into emacs

[Glenn Morris]

David Kastrup wrote:

> Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Much simpler heuristic would be checking for the existence of the
>> dot emacs: if .emacs exists in the user's home directory this
>> definitely means that the user is not a complete beginner
>
> Disagree.  Just click "Options/Word Wrap in Text Modes" and
> "Options/Save Options" and you qualify as an expert without startup
> screen access?  No.

Also, the `useradd' command installs some default dotfiles from
/etc/skel. At least on Red Hat, this includes a basic .emacs file.

(_Why_ they do it this way rather than through default.el is a
different issue...)