From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Binding C-a to select all Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 17:34:00 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214440845 19020 80.91.229.12 (26 Jun 2008 00:40:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:40:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 26 02:41:30 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KBfYG-0000kL-Pz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:41:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58807 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KBfXR-0006BV-5V for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:40:37 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!w4g2000prd.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.97.120 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1214440440 21864 127.0.0.1 (26 Jun 2008 00:34:00 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:34:00 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: w4g2000prd.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.97.120; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Safari/525.18, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:159732 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:55085 Archived-At: On Jun 25, 11:36 am, adams...@email.unc.edu (Joel J. Adamson) wrote: > Davin Pearson writes: > > I am using Emacs to teach computer programming to computer novices > > They'll continue being novices unless forced out of their comfort > zones. > > What I mean is that if you get them to learn the Emacs way, suddenly > they'll be advanced computer users ;) > > > and therefore I need to modify Emacs to make it more like a standard > > Windows application. > > I disagree that you need to: at least some of the people in your class > will find Emacs keybindings (and the rest of the interface) more > comfortable and logical, and they'll see why they've been so frustrated > with "standard Windows" applications. Emacs keybindings actually has very little technical merit. See http://xahlee.org/emacs/emacs_kb_shortcuts_pain.html http://xahlee.org/emacs/ergonomic_emacs_keybinding.html Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84