> From: "Drew Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:43:03 -0700 > > The philosophy is that the default Emacs should > work well enough for the new user not to be > bothered by customization for quite some time. > > It's not a question of bother. Setting preferences in most UI applications > is not something users do only exceptionally and only because they are > bothered. This is all the more true of Emacs customization. Customization is > a part of normal Emacs use even more than it is part of the use of other > apps. Emacs *is* customization, in oh so many ways. Do you want to > customize? Get Emacs. It doesn't matter what - you can customize anything > with Emacs.
My point is that customization is a sufficiently advanced issue, so new users should get used to Emacs and read the docs for some time before they embark on the never-ending customize adventure. Meanwhile, they have the Options menu to start with.
