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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Date: 21 Dec 1996 16:00:26 +0100
In-Reply-To: Steven L Baur's message of 20 Dec 1996 22:05:43 -0800
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Steven L. Baur (steve@miranova.com) wrote:
> Colin> Only if it is text by default.  What we want to have is an
> Colin> editor that a new user can sit down and use.  Setting options
> Colin> comes later.

Is it really what we want to have?  I am not so sure that each and
every aspect of XEmacs should be inclined towards new users.  XEmacs
should be sensible, but as I see it, it is an Emacs, a Lisp
interpreter-based editor.  It is quite normal for it to start up in
lisp-interaction-mode.  What do the others think of these issues?

Furthermore (as I pointed out before), lisp-interaction-mode is
actually *not* too obnoxious to stop you from writing text.

> Exactly.  There's also the issue that *scratch* is a special buffer,
> and changing the mode on it and changing the default mode have global
> implications.
> I'm content in the short term to have the first buffer displayed come
> up in text mode.

I am against this.  But if you do introduce such behaviour, please
provide an easy way to switch it off.  Also, don't call that buffer
*scratch* because it is bound to confuse the old Emacs users.

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
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Oh lord won't you buy me a color TV...

