What's in the Emacs newcomers-presets theme?

A detailed breakdown of the new newcomers-presets theme included in Emacs 31 (and development builds after Feb 2026), which bundles beginner-friendly defaults such as line numbers, smooth pixel scrolling, minibuffer history persistence, improved completion UI, which-key style shortcut hints, flymake for error checking, electric pairing, editorconfig support, and various VC and Dired conveniences. The theme can be enabled from the splash screen or via M-x load-theme RET newcomers-presets RET, and each setting is explained with its underlying Emacs Lisp code so users can selectively copy pieces into their own init files.

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