From: Lars Hansen <larsh@math.ku.dk>
Subject: Re: Default Emacs keybindings (was: Re: Menu suggestion)
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 13:33:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <408CF39D.2000201@math.ku.dk> (raw)
Maybe one have to make a choice:
1. Emacs should be for "superusers" only.
2. Emacs should be for "ordinary users" *and* "superusers".
If the first choice is made, Emacs code and manuals can continue to
assume standard Emacs key bindings. This choice is the easy one.
If the second choice is made, Emacs code and manuals probably have to
support different key binding sets, since the "Emacs standard" and
"MacOS/MS Windows/Gnome/KDE consensus" are so far apart and conflicting.
I know it is an enormous task to implement this fully, but I see no real
choice (apart from 1).
I my dreams Emacs has these menu entries:
Options->Key bindings->Emacs Classic
->MS Windows
->Modify current bindings
Choosing "Modify current bindings" one is able to move entire trees,
such as everything prefixed by C-x, to another prefix. Furthermore, one
can choose to save the current keybindings under a different name.
Although this is hard to implement, it is not impossible. And it must be
possible to do it in small steps.
next reply other threads:[~2004-04-26 11:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-26 11:33 Lars Hansen [this message]
2004-04-26 13:26 ` Default Emacs keybindings (was: Re: Menu suggestion) Jan D.
2004-04-27 6:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-04-27 7:23 ` Jan D.
2004-04-27 8:43 ` Steven Tamm
2004-04-27 15:17 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-04-27 16:46 ` Steven Tamm
2004-04-27 15:27 ` Piet van Oostrum
2004-04-27 8:24 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-27 9:36 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2004-04-27 10:42 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2004-04-27 9:54 ` David Kastrup
2004-04-27 10:23 ` Default Emacs keybindings Lars Hansen
2004-04-27 11:06 ` Default Emacs keybindings (was: Re: Menu suggestion) Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-04-27 11:25 ` David Kastrup
2004-05-02 23:31 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-04-27 13:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-04-23 21:24 Menu suggestion David Kastrup
2004-04-24 23:02 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-04-25 23:35 ` Richard Stallman
2004-04-26 8:23 ` Default Emacs keybindings (was: Re: Menu suggestion) Per Abrahamsen
2004-04-26 13:35 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-04-26 13:44 ` Alan Mackenzie
2004-04-26 15:16 ` David Kastrup
2004-04-26 22:33 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-04-26 21:36 ` David Kastrup
2004-04-26 23:06 ` Luc Teirlinck
2004-04-27 14:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-04-27 14:22 ` David Kastrup
2004-04-29 19:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-24 14:08 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-26 16:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-26 17:01 ` David Kastrup
2004-05-27 23:53 ` Richard Stallman
2004-05-28 21:06 ` Stefan Monnier
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