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[h-e-w] RE: new user keybindings - xkeymacs
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Raymond Zeitler |
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[h-e-w] RE: new user keybindings - xkeymacs |
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Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:23:36 -0400 |
Whoa! I've been miss-quoted. I believe it was "Richard M. Heiberger"
<address@hidden> who wrote the two paragraphs that you attributed to me.
But thanks for the recommendation anyway.
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 10:53:33 -0400
From: address@hidden
Subject: Re: [h-e-w] RE: new user keybindings - xkeymacs
To: address@hidden
Lennart wrote:
>Are you using a lot of other programs on windows too? Don't you use the
>CUA bindings for copy, cut, paste and undo there? Are you not
experience
>any conflict when you frequently switch from Emacs to other
applications
>(and are in a hurry or stressed for other reasons)?
and Raymond wrote:
>I have been following this discussion from a distance and therefore
>tried out the CUA bindings just to see what they do. My interest is
>protective. I am forever typing C-w in my university's email window
>and then the whole window vanishes.
>
>My first reaction was negative. When I highlighted some text and then
>typed C-x C-f to find a new file my higlighted region vanished.
>I would rather use two different key-bindings---emacs and other---then
>go through the hassle of undoing unintended text kills. What is
>the recommended way to protect regular emacs users from this problem?
>What is the way to tell new users with the CUA bindings about the many,
>many emacs commands that begin with C-x?
While maybe not the perfect solution I use Oishi's excellent
XKeymacs utility on Windows to give me Emacs style keybindings
for many commands *in regular Windows applications*.
[snip]