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Re: Tweaking t-m-m to make room for d-s-m


From: Lennart Borgman
Subject: Re: Tweaking t-m-m to make room for d-s-m
Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2010 00:23:34 +0100

On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Drew Adams <address@hidden> wrote:
>> If  it were not for the CUA keys the Emacs bindings were a good
>> choice...
>>
>> It is not hard at all to understand the choices. But if CUA keys had
>> been used before Emacs then I guess Emacs key bindings would have
>> included them and looked quite a bit different.
>
> Do you really think that, given that need (e.g. for easy to type prefix keys),
> Emacs would waste half a dozen of the simplest keys - keys that could and
> rightfully should be prefix keys - on operations like cut, copy, paste, find,
> and save?

Yes I do. Emacs have single key bindings for the same things as CUA
(except for undo). It is just that they are different.




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