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Kester Clegg <kester@cs.york.ac.uk> wrote in message news:<yqr8yyqdvtn.fsf@cs.york.ac.uk>...
> sdieselil@yahoo.com (sdieselil) writes:
> 
> > On the other side arrow keys and C-z, C-x, C-c, C-v (for clipboard
> > operations) are still very comfortable for me so I decide to make a
> > mixed key bindings map: 
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Or you can convince me that traditional Emacs system is better?
> 
> I would stick to the traditional Emacs, simply because if you need to
> work on someone else terminal, it's a pain when you've set up too many
> personalised keybindings.  You're immediately rendered a newbie on
> someone else's machine, or you can't use their emacs because they've
> done their own weird bindings.  Plus, lot's of other apps use the
> default emacs bindings, e.g. the bash CLI, Matlab, etc, etc..  And you
> may not be able to make use of people's smart answers on this newsgroup
> if you've overwritten some default binding or other.  :-)
> 
> The keys you suggest for the clipboard are heavily used already...

I think you aren't right about "someone else terminal". I always can
bring my floppy with emacs configuration file. Other major apps I use
also allow me set my own keybindings so it's not a problem.