Re: Emacs for new users

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 10:04 PM, Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> wrote:
> Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>
>>> With that said, I think a solution to the learning-emacs-in-classroom and
>>> emacs-for-new-users problems is the same: include a .emacs which turns
>>> on things like CUA mode to make operation more familiar.
>>
>> The problem is that it does not work as good as it could in all
>> situations. Since CUA is not the default not so much effort in getting
>> rid of all ruogh things. Not that you can't work around them, but it
>> is not so easy for a newcomer.
>
> The primary barrier to CUA is that it destroys the long-established
> standard that C-c LETTER is free for binding to Emacs user commands.
>
> So we won't be moving to CUA any time soon.  For those that want it,
> it's just a click away on the Options menu.


Yes, I am aware of the situation. It is still just as unfortunate however.

Putting cua-mode on the menus was a good step towards making it easier
for newcommers. Could we perhaps also apply my patches that shows C-c,
C-x etc on the edit menu when cua-mode is on?