Re: Emacs for new users

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

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Per Starbäck <per@starback.se> wrote:
> 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.


It is possible to use the Windows left and right keys in Emacs on MS
Window. You need currently a patched version of Emacs for it to work
correctly though. Those patches are in the Emacs+EmacsW32
distribution.