Homepage: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/beginner.el
Author: Jason Spiro
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Simplify Emacs
The purpose of beginner-mode is to make Emacs less imposing, so people will try it instead of gedit, kate, et cetera. One way to do it is to make it look nicer, but the way I have chosen is to reduce the amount of UI onscreen and make some other changes. Beginner-mode makes Emacs look simpler and cleaner. It also adds functionality to Emacs that many users appreciate having in a text editor. (It is added by enabling minor modes. If you don't want them, just comment out the appropriate lines of this code.) This is only alpha-quality code, and I'm not confident it's useful yet. If you are a beginner to Emacs and use Windows, instead try the EmacsW32 version of Emacs. I encourage you to edit this file and to submit your changes back to the webpage you got it from. Or send me a patch. Also, I love feedback, and I would be grateful to hear what you think of beginner-mode. Even if you hate it, I would like to hear from you.