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From: "Per Starbäck" <per@starback.se>
To: Stephen Eilert <spedrosa@gmail.com>
Cc: Les Harris <lharris@gnome.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs for new users
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:43:27 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <912155b0911231443t27cebcfetf7c61e5de9ccd7da@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <912155b0911231406j47893a76p6e94e929f39fe8ae@mail.gmail.com>

I wrote
> As for CUA I just thought of something. What do you think about having
> s-x, s-c, s-v, s-z do the CUA
> thing in Emacs? Many people have keyboards with C-, s- and M- modifier
> keys. Maybe it would be acceptable
> for those used to these bindings that in Emacs you have to use another
> modifier key with "the normal stuff"
> since the usual "Alt key" is used by "special emacs commands"?

I should have written "the usual Control key" in the last line of course!

I've read up on what the "Windows key" is used for in MS Windows a
little now, and realize
this probably wouldn't be possible under MS Windows, but maybe in GNU
where that extra modifier
key often is "super" and not used for much.




  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-23 22:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-23 16:37 Emacs for new users Per Starbäck
2009-11-23 16:59 ` Giuseppe Scrivano
2009-11-23 18:47   ` Chong Yidong
2009-11-23 20:49     ` bug#1305: " Chong Yidong
2009-11-23 20:49     ` Chong Yidong
2009-11-26 22:35       ` Beeping (was: Emacs for new users) Juri Linkov
2009-11-26 23:12         ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-27  4:12           ` bug#1305: Beeping Stefan Monnier
2009-11-27  4:12           ` Beeping Stefan Monnier
2009-11-27  6:48             ` bug#1305: Beeping Lennart Borgman
2009-11-27  6:48             ` Beeping Lennart Borgman
2009-11-27 19:25               ` bug#1305: Beeping Stefan Monnier
2009-11-27 19:25               ` Beeping Stefan Monnier
2009-11-27 20:25                 ` Beeping Lennart Borgman
2009-11-27 23:12                   ` Beeping Stefan Monnier
2009-11-27 23:15                     ` Beeping Lennart Borgman
2009-11-28  1:49                       ` Beeping Stefan Monnier
2009-11-28  2:47                         ` Beeping Lennart Borgman
2009-11-27 20:25                 ` bug#1305: Beeping Lennart Borgman
2009-11-26 23:12         ` bug#1305: Beeping (was: Emacs for new users) Lennart Borgman
2009-11-26 22:35       ` Juri Linkov
2009-11-23 17:05 ` Emacs for new users Stephen Eilert
2009-11-24 14:10   ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-24 14:43     ` Renaud Casenave-Péré
2009-11-24 16:10       ` Andreas Schwab
2009-11-25 21:01       ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-30 23:02       ` Giorgos Keramidas
2009-11-24 15:51     ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-24 16:41       ` Drew Adams
2009-11-24 17:15         ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-24 17:27           ` Chong Yidong
2009-11-24 17:35             ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-24 17:51             ` Deniz Dogan
2009-11-24 18:37               ` Chong Yidong
2009-11-24 18:03           ` Drew Adams
2009-11-24 18:06             ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-24 18:22               ` Drew Adams
2009-11-24 18:30                 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-24 19:35                   ` Drew Adams
2009-11-24 19:40                     ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-25 21:02           ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-25 21:04             ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-25 21:57             ` Fernando C.V.
2009-11-25 22:05               ` Drew Adams
2009-11-25 22:27                 ` Fernando C.V.
2009-11-25 22:34                   ` Drew Adams
2009-11-26  6:23               ` Richard Stallman
2009-11-23 18:56 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-23 19:35   ` Les Harris
2009-11-23 20:28     ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-23 21:04       ` Chong Yidong
2009-11-23 21:16         ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-23 21:56           ` Stefan Monnier
2009-11-23 22:05             ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-30 22:55         ` Giorgos Keramidas
2009-11-30 23:01           ` Lennart Borgman
2009-12-01  9:13           ` Deniz Dogan
2009-12-01 10:13             ` Miles Bader
2010-11-13 19:14               ` separating CUA rectangles from CUA selection mode [was: Emacs for new users] Drew Adams
2009-11-23 21:16     ` Emacs for new users Stephen Eilert
2009-11-23 22:06       ` Per Starbäck
2009-11-23 22:43         ` Per Starbäck [this message]
2009-11-23 22:46           ` Lennart Borgman
2009-11-23 23:55           ` Sebastian Rose
2009-11-24  6:43           ` tomas

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