Re: Semi-unhelpful error message given when trying to (provide 'CUA-mode)

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com> writes:

> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
>>>F10 exists, and the menu bar is displayed by default.  So the menu is
>>>clearly intended to be used by tty users as well.
>>
>> The menu bar is stupidly displayed, yes, but there's no way to activate
>> its items.  It's just a waste of space.  I didn't actually know about the
>> F10 binding, though I do know M-`.
>
> The tty "menus" invoked by F10 on a tty are so clunky and annoying to
> use that I think most users will not want to use them.
>
> Morever, I think in general we want to gently encourage people to become
> familiar with "Emacsy" ways to do things.

The "Emacsy way" to enable cua-mode permanently is to either use the
menu where you can _save_ the setting, or to use customize-variable on
cua-mode.

> I think Alan's change is a good one.

Alan's suggestion to the user does not enable cua-mode permanently.
It is useless.

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