From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Random832 Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: I am confused: why Emacs keybindings in OS X? Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 01:24:18 -0500 Message-ID: References: <52c0bcab-c37e-4ecb-960e-5b46dcc10c2f@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1454135102 28520 80.91.229.3 (30 Jan 2016 06:25:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2016 06:25:02 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 30 07:24:45 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aPOxg-0002hF-GE for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2016 07:24:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37691 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aPOxc-00025P-Jm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2016 01:24:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:42177) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aPOxR-00024O-NR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2016 01:24:30 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aPOxO-0007kS-HP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2016 01:24:29 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:35786) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aPOxO-0007kO-Ao for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2016 01:24:26 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aPOxM-0002MG-Km for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jan 2016 07:24:24 +0100 Original-Received: from c-68-39-93-111.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([68.39.93.111]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 30 Jan 2016 07:24:24 +0100 Original-Received: from random832 by c-68-39-93-111.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 30 Jan 2016 07:24:24 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-68-39-93-111.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (darwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Lcc7+lABCnFZspfzt25ATlWlxwE= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:108921 Archived-At: Alan writes: > And, guess what? The Emacs keybindings are not de rigeur on the > GNU/Linux system!!! I think it's that the GNU/Linux world, as an extension of the PC world, moved to using ctrl as a general accelerator key. I remember on apps in the 1990s and early 2000s using Motif, (e.g. the early versions of Netscape) which used Meta as the general accelerator key, a subset of the Emacs keybindings using control *were* supported within text edit boxes. In OSX, the general accelerator key is "command", so there is no conflict with providing the Emacs bindings with control.