Re: Emacs learning curve

[Uday S Reddy]

On 7/14/2010 11:31 AM, Tom wrote:

> That's why CUA-style editing should be made the consistent default, so Emacs
> works like all other modern application on KDE/Gnome/Windows, etc. and the
> current behavior should be provided as a compatibility mode for those who
> are accustomed to the old behavior.

Instead of asking for the defaults to be changed, why can't you, or anybody 
else that is interested, create configuration files, called KDE-Emacs or 
Windows-Emacs or whatever, which fit into such environments?  The Mac-uses seem 
to be doing it with Aquamacs etc.

(We had a big row about line-move-visual, not because it was a question of 
defaults, but because the default setting changed the meaning of next-line, 
which broke or potentially broke various applications running on Emacs. 
Stefan's defence that the Emacs 23 compiler flagged the problem was completely 
satisfactory.)

Emacs is configurable, free software, which can be tweaked by everybody.  There 
is no need to react to it as if it were some proprietary, commercial software 
where you are dependent on the gods to do everything.

Cheers,
Uday