> Both points are really useful for getting started quickly, but would I imagine be really hard for emacs. The first would require changing default behaviour on

> Both points are really useful for getting started quickly, but would I imagine be really hard for emacs. The first would require changing default behaviour on first startup, the second would need accepting some set of people to decide the "default" sets of plugins. I actually don't think these are very hard from a technical perspective. The first has been done in the past. Aquamacs was a version of Emacs for Mac OS that supported conventional Mac keyboard shortcuts, in addition to the Emacs ones. The second should really just be a matter of matching certain file extensions and prompting to download the most popular mode for that file type. The Emacs package manager is very good, so it's a simple change to just include a mapping from file extension to Emacs package and trigger the prompt when opening a file of a given type for the first time.