51.6 Newcomers Theme

Each release of Emacs brings new features, but they are not enabled by default to avoid disrupting users’ existing workflows. Many of these features, however, are intended to make Emacs more approachable to new users. Furthermore, newcomers don’t yet have any existing workflows that could be disrupted! Therefore, if you are new to Emacs, you can enable the newcomers-presets theme (see Custom Themes) to set a collection of user options that we think will be useful for new users acquainted with conventions from other programs.

The functionality enabled by the newcomers-presets theme will change between releases of Emacs. We may add new functionality, and also remove old functionality that we think has been superseded. Therefore, if you get used to the newcomers’ presets, consider copying them into your own configuration and then disabling the theme again. You can use the command copy-theme-options (see Custom Themes) to do this.

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