Re: Gather a list of confusions beginner tend to have

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 09:08:09 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings via "Emacs development discussions." 
> <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> 
> With vanilla Emacs you have indeed (see C-h w):
> 
> kill-ring-save is on <C-insertchar>, <C-insert>, M-w, <menu-bar> <edit> <copy>
> yank is on C-y, <S-insertchar>, <S-insert>, <menu-bar> <edit> <paste>
> kill-region is on C-w, <S-delete>, <menu-bar> <edit> <cut>
> 
> So the CUA bindings are there.

But not the "CUA bindings" that users out there expect, which is what
we call "CUA mode".

IOW, historical precedents and naming mistakes aside, many newcomers
expect the likes of C-c, C-v, C-a, C-z, C-x to do what they do in
other applications, and we only provide those when CUA Mode is turned
on, we cannot possibly provide them by default.

So the fact that IBM calls "CUA" something else is a tangent, not
really relevant or important in this context.