From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 17:50:15 +0200 Message-ID: <01c52c9b$Blat.v2.4$7cd7d600@zahav.net.il> References: <874qf8d3cy.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> <01c52c71$Blat.v2.4$400dcce0@zahav.net.il> <423C385F.6080704@yahoo.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111248241 10438 80.91.229.2 (19 Mar 2005 16:04:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 16:04:01 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 19 17:04:01 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCgQe-0003QE-T7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 17:03:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCghN-0006u9-FD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 11:21:13 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DCgdu-0004Pm-Iq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 11:17:39 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DCgdk-0004K8-NQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 11:17:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCgdk-0004G2-Je for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 11:17:28 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DCgG6-0000Qz-Sy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 10:53:03 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretski (IGLD-84-228-241-130.inter.net.il [84.228.241.130]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.6-GR) with ESMTP id AUA06108 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 19 Mar 2005 17:53:01 +0200 (IST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailer: emacs 22.0.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 2.4 In-reply-to: <423C385F.6080704@yahoo.de> (message from nfreimann on Sat, 19 Mar 2005 15:34:07 +0100) 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 X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24957 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24957 > Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 15:34:07 +0100 > From: nfreimann > > Eli, what he wants to tell us is, that CUA bindings and GUI dialogs are > common today, and not proprietary key bindings and dialogs a la mini > buffer or something. Emacs does have a CUA mode (the current CVS code allows to turn it on from the Options menu). Unfortunately, CUA keybindings are so incompatible with traditional Emacs bindings that making them the default would produce a terrible outcry among veteran users.