From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: CUA-mode and conflicts with C-x commands Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 02:38:16 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <68b58ad4-99cc-4b41-bb3e-d498a1706a75@x12g2000yqx.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1273163273 26242 80.91.229.12 (6 May 2010 16:27:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 16:27:53 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 06 18:27:50 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1OA3vP-0000G4-2L for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 May 2010 18:27:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58551 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OA3vO-00014o-Al for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 May 2010 12:27:46 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!b7g2000yqk.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 76.102.12.87 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1273138696 29969 127.0.0.1 (6 May 2010 09:38:16 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 09:38:16 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: b7g2000yqk.googlegroups.com; posting-host=76.102.12.87; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/4.1.249.1064 Safari/532.5,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177975 comp.emacs:99809 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73509 Archived-At: On Apr 16, 5:50=C2=A0am, LanX 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 =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84