From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs learning curve Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:05:39 +0300 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <87k4p257ho.fsf@mail.jurta.org> References: <10954D02-E217-49F3-8824-757DA34074AB@gmail.com> <83zkxzakr0.fsf@gnu.org> <83pqyva8ms.fsf@gnu.org> <87630n6odf.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <874og670l0.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1278864475 22333 80.91.229.12 (11 Jul 2010 16:07:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Jul 2010 16:07:55 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Tom , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Sebastian Rose Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 11 18:07:52 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OXz4F-0001u6-MZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 18:07:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57848 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OXz4F-00034Q-3X for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:07:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34662 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OXz47-000321-M8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:07:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OXz45-0001Kr-IX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:07:39 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp-out2.starman.ee ([85.253.0.4]:49741 helo=mx2.starman.ee) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OXz45-0001Kf-Bv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:07:37 -0400 X-Virus-Scanned: by Amavisd-New at mx2.starman.ee Original-Received: from mail.starman.ee (82.131.32.52.cable.starman.ee [82.131.32.52]) by mx2.starman.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id 141BA3F4096; Sun, 11 Jul 2010 19:07:32 +0300 (EEST) In-Reply-To: <874og670l0.fsf@gmx.de> (Sebastian Rose's message of "Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:51:55 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:127055 Archived-At: > Using the mouse, on the other hand, is very fast in some cases to copy > lots of pieces of data. This can only be done, because of the way emacs > kill-ring-saves text (M-w). I don't use the mouse because using the keyboard is more convenient. > BUT: I can see no reason, why `clipboard-kill-ring-save' et al could not > be bound to a sensible and simple key by default. That's why I suggested to bind it to the CUA key , and also to another CUA key `C-c' because using the clipboard is the standard semantics of these CUA keys. There are numerous user requests asking for this, the most recent was just yesterday: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3216081/integrate-emacs-copy-paste-with-system-copy-paste -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/