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From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: CUA-mode and conflicts with C-x commands
Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 02:38:16 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dc77756e-c3bb-4669-8644-83ae796858d9@b7g2000yqk.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 68b58ad4-99cc-4b41-bb3e-d498a1706a75@x12g2000yqx.googlegroups.com

On Apr 16, 5:50 am, LanX <lanx.p...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Shortcut conflict or another clash of civilizations ...
>
> In CUA-mode I regularly get bitten by unwanted deletes of regions with
> C-x when trying to save or alike...
>
> There different (intelligent) approaches I can think of are:
>
> a) moving CUA's kill to C-x C-x
> b) undoing the kill if C-x is followed by C-x
> c) automatically undoing the kill if C-x is followed by C-s and alike
> d) shifting the most frequent C-x mode-map commands to other bindings
>
> what do you suggest?

personally, i use a new keybinding set. So, save is Ctrl+s, copy and
paste is the familiar Ctrl+ x c v. (don't even need cua mode on) So
there's no conflict. You might try it here:

  http://xahlee.org/emacs/ergonomic_emacs_keybinding.html

  Xah
∑ http://xahlee.org/

☄


      parent reply	other threads:[~2010-05-06  9:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-16 12:50 CUA-mode and conflicts with C-x commands LanX
2010-04-16 13:16 ` LanX
2010-05-04 21:17 ` Lennart Borgman
     [not found] ` <mailman.39.1273007891.29092.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-05-05 20:04   ` LanX
2010-05-06  0:02     ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-06  0:31       ` LanX
2010-05-06 10:06         ` Lennart Borgman
     [not found]         ` <mailman.21.1273140408.10435.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-05-06 12:04           ` LanX
2010-05-06 21:49             ` Lennart Borgman
2010-05-06  9:38 ` Xah Lee [this message]

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