Re: please make line-move-visual nil

[Lennart Borgman]

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 1:53 AM, David Reitter <address@hidden> wrote:
>> If the purpose is to make new users feel at home, then we could create
>> something like firstboot.el that runs in the first run. Most operating
>> systems have this.
>
>
> ... and then Emacs would magically and surprisingly change its configuration
> after the first startup?
> Even more confusing.
>
> How about a newbie-mode, which can be en/disabled directly from the startup
> screen?
>
> Ps.: I think it's too late in the game for 23.1 for this sort of change.

This has been proposed in several variants. I think the best would be
an approach where key bindings (and maybe behaviour in some cases)
could be switched to major platforms conformity by some command. (This
could be implemented by options and functions turning on and saving
them groupwise.)