From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kester Clegg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: key bindings Date: 16 Dec 2002 11:53:08 +0000 Organization: Rolls Royce UTC, Dept. of Computer Science, University of York, UK Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <169a7283.0212131001.6550f502@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1040039979 29327 80.91.224.249 (16 Dec 2002 11:59:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 11:59:39 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18NtuL-0007cm-00 for ; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 12:59:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18NtqU-0004AL-05 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 16 Dec 2002 06:55:38 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!lnewspeer00.lnd.ops.eu.uu.net!emea.uu.net!server1.netnews.ja.net!news.york.ac.uk!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pc310.cs.york.ac.uk Original-X-Trace: pump1.york.ac.uk 1040039588 27578 144.32.40.101 (16 Dec 2002 11:53:08 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@york.ac.uk Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 16 Dec 2002 11:53:08 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:108161 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:4690 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:4690 sdieselil@yahoo.com (sdieselil) writes: > On the other side arrow keys and C-z, C-x, C-c, C-v (for clipboard > operations) are still very comfortable for me so I decide to make a > mixed key bindings map: [...] > Or you can convince me that traditional Emacs system is better? I would stick to the traditional Emacs, simply because if you need to work on someone else terminal, it's a pain when you've set up too many personalised keybindings. You're immediately rendered a newbie on someone else's machine, or you can't use their emacs because they've done their own weird bindings. Plus, lot's of other apps use the default emacs bindings, e.g. the bash CLI, Matlab, etc, etc.. And you may not be able to make use of people's smart answers on this newsgroup if you've overwritten some default binding or other. :-) The keys you suggest for the clipboard are heavily used already... -- ************************************************************************ Kester Clegg Dept. of Computer Science, Research Assistant (UTC) University of York, Tel (01904) 43 27 49 email: kester at cs.york.ac.uk ************************************************************************