From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Per_Starb=E4ck?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs for new users Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:43:27 +0100 Message-ID: <912155b0911231443t27cebcfetf7c61e5de9ccd7da@mail.gmail.com> References: <912155b0911230837i48326730m82e0d54d4004be59@mail.gmail.com> <4p4rt6-2ne.ln1@lesharris.com> <485b0c380911231316o72b32465m4444dbadf59aca9e@mail.gmail.com> <912155b0911231406j47893a76p6e94e929f39fe8ae@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259016233 3576 80.91.229.12 (23 Nov 2009 22:43:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 22:43:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Les Harris , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Eilert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 23 23:43:46 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NChdJ-0004ck-NK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:43:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46379 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NChdE-0001HR-1L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:43:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NChd7-0001Eh-RI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:43:33 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NChd2-00015o-MG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:43:32 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48369 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NChd2-00015d-GI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:43:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f213.google.com ([209.85.220.213]:62636) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NChd2-0001Go-0z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:43:28 -0500 Original-Received: by fxm5 with SMTP id 5so6768197fxm.8 for ; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:43:27 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc :content-type; bh=vgICsK6R7JZaj7v1a4rp/ZU9hfIubxoQDmi5oIWw1Fs=; b=e/bk+IhoNOPMOmWAtt/ljR1nffBPzghE7E5q74UgK1+oOtmBrIvJ1N4MSRTTkyiPNW HKL1rVPZddgih2G7dDsC2RXlREjmo3lcI63mmcPOejHmoxcC6NyZLJjZARtSAZ6iT3rU d8LVdmYkvWIwQ1vXzbhqxDSylZPybLZHmRnHc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; b=mMQLNpATNqK0HWIZHcdOHWUyj2MNq9CcpJYQs62Nvlohz9eJhaNtvGbO8mFxrROlZa eHrIPvGGOlagCjGBlVFj5/90L7C1CZjC0hqn2BiZ1v6uNsFUQUsv0X1jLFm2yFuLLYIN Qco3onOZRcOWfxst7yippkZNaneZ/CrrVgU2U= Original-Received: by 10.223.4.132 with SMTP id 4mr825285far.45.1259016207245; Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:43:27 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <912155b0911231406j47893a76p6e94e929f39fe8ae@mail.gmail.com> X-Google-Sender-Auth: be87ed3baab553df X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:117646 Archived-At: I wrote > As for CUA I just thought of something. What do you think about having > s-x, s-c, s-v, s-z do the CUA > thing in Emacs? Many people have keyboards with C-, s- and M- modifier > keys. Maybe it would be acceptable > for those used to these bindings that in Emacs you have to use another > modifier key with "the normal stuff" > since the usual "Alt key" is used by "special emacs commands"? I should have written "the usual Control key" in the last line of course! I've read up on what the "Windows key" is used for in MS Windows a little now, and realize this probably wouldn't be possible under MS Windows, but maybe in GNU where that extra modifier key often is "super" and not used for much.