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And I think a lot of it is because of defaults. Whenever I open an emacs without my usual configuration of doom-emacs I have to admit it looks dated. Add to that default keyboard shortcuts not working and you've alienated practically everyone taking a look at it.

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> I have to admit it looks dated.

I assume this is because most Emacs users, especially Emacs devs, disable the menu bar, tool bar, tab bar, scroll bar, etc.

> default keyboard shortcuts not working

Yeah, I think a new Emacs installation should prompt the user to choose between something like "Common keyboard shortcuts" and "Classic Emacs shortcuts". It would take me only a few minutes to set up all the common keyboard shortcuts for a new Emacs installation, but I think it should be just one setting.

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