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Re: Rewrite of zsh-newuser-install

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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Marlon Richert <marlon.richert@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: dana <dana@xxxxxxx>, Oliver Kiddle <opk@xxxxxxx>, Daniel Shahaf <d.s@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Zsh hackers list <zsh-workers@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Rewrite of zsh-newuser-install
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2021 10:57:49 -0800
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On Sat, Feb 20, 2021 at 12:18 AM Marlon Richert
<marlon.richert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> While I have no quantifiable evidence for this particular case, it is a general principle of modern UX Design to give the user good defaults, which they then can change later, rather than present them with lots of choices upfront.

I have no quibble with this, but I've actually used the questionnaire
myself to set up zsh on hosts from which I can't access the repository
with my $ZDOTDIR.  I would be dismayed to have it completely thrown
away/inaccessible.

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