From: Bob Proulx <bob@proulx.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Learning "my emacs" from the start (was: Generating a listing of all symbols)
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 13:01:28 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140421190128.GA3043@hysteria.proulx.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <856f5985-738c-4842-a05b-c3023f598c55@googlegroups.com>
Rusi wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Bob Proulx wrote
> > > One problem is that the standard emacs keys appear to be changing. I
> > > like the traditional emacs keys. But many people prefer CUA mode.
> > > CUA mode drives me crazy. Much of my .emacs file is to change things
> > > back to traditional settings.
> >
> > The standard keybindings are changing (slowly) to be more friendly to
> > newcomers. We the veteran users count less, since we already know how
> > to customize Emacs to behave like we are used to.
>
> Thank you for these sentiments!
Sorry but I disagree. Unfortunately that sounds all too much like the
common, "I love you. You're perfect. Now change." :-(
I really don't mind people creating new modes and new programs with
different keybindings. That's great. It is only when that breaks it
for existing users that I think it is bad.
Bob
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-21 19:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-19 20:10 Learning "my emacs" from the start (was: Generating a listing of all symbols) Hans BKK
2014-04-19 20:57 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-04-20 8:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-20 10:39 ` Learning "my emacs" from the start Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-04-20 11:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-20 14:12 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-04-20 14:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-22 8:47 ` Nicolas Richard
2014-04-22 16:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-04-20 13:00 ` Florian v. Savigny
2014-04-20 13:29 ` Florian v. Savigny
2014-04-20 14:50 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-04-21 8:26 ` Florian v. Savigny
[not found] ` <mailman.19974.1398068777.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-04-21 13:12 ` Hans BKK
[not found] ` <mailman.19908.1397981214.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-04-20 13:23 ` Learning "my emacs" from the start (was: Generating a listing of all symbols) Rusi
2014-04-20 17:13 ` Bob Proulx
2014-04-20 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.19947.1398019903.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-04-21 14:37 ` Rusi
2014-04-21 19:01 ` Bob Proulx [this message]
2014-04-21 20:16 ` Robert Thorpe
2014-04-21 20:22 ` Robert Thorpe
2014-04-21 21:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.20014.1398106904.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-04-22 1:37 ` Rusi
2014-04-20 17:12 ` Hans BKK
2014-04-20 20:36 ` Robert Thorpe
2014-04-20 20:41 ` Emanuel Berg
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