Re: Yet another discussion on improving the first time user experience

[Juri Linkov]

> there needs to be a "theory of the keymap" for CUA as powerful
> as the theory provided by the traditional Emacs bindings which
> extends CUA to cover the editing features provided by Emacs.

In fact, Emacs bindings already extend CUA: in addition to
such CUA bindings as C-x cut and C-c copy, shifted variants
S-C-x and S-C-c pass their bindings to the default prefix map.
Also like M-f that moves forward one word and C-M-f that
moves forward one expression, the keys M-right and C-M-right
extend CUA to do the equivalent.  Also M-backspace kills one word
backward while C-M-backspace kills one expression backward,
oops, it kills X :-(