From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: About CUA mode
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:53:43 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ppxhu0yw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAF+z6EVOceKsQ7GkM7ydRUoZ4SJ_WEnos3yWAwcUP-w+QBq9A@mail.gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:29:54 +0800
> From: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com>
>
> This page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access) says that:
>
> The Cut command is Shift+Del; Copy is Ctrl+Ins; Paste is Shift+Ins;
>
> But in cua-mode, `C-x', `C-c', `C-v', and `C-z' invoke commands that cut
> (kill), copy, paste (yank), and undo respectively. Why?
Why not? The keys mentioned by Wikipedia _also_ do in CUA Mode what
Wikipedia says they should, so what's exactly the problem?
IOW, there's more than one interpretation of CUA, and Emacs supports
them all, or at least tries to. The second group of keys you mention
is what is known as "CUA" on DOS and Windows systems.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-26 8:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-26 8:29 About CUA mode Xue Fuqiao
2013-04-26 8:53 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-04-26 22:36 ` Xue Fuqiao
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