On Jan 4, 2014 9:17 PM, "Joshua Judson Rosen" wrote: > > > Also, didn't cua-mode already `fix' this: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/CUA-Bindings.html > > Though that brings me to something that's been bugging me since someone > first told me (last year) that cua-mode had actually gone into emacs: > my recollection from the early 1990s was that the CUA keystrokes for > cut, copy, and paste were *not* C-x, C-c, and C-v; but rather > S-delete, C-insert, and S-insert (respectively). These were the > keystrokes that I remember using in Windows at the time, and > what I've also been using in Emacs and other applications in X11 > since about that time, and even what I used in applications on > Mac OS X when I needed to use it just a couple of years ago. > > Wikipedia seems to agree with my memory rather than what's in the Emacs > manual: > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_User_Access > > Did the CUA spec actually change to use C-x, C-c, C-v at some point, or > is Emacs cua-mode mistaken about which standard it's implementing? Ah, so you mean that cua-mode was also badly named in Emacs in should be renamed? ;-)