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[h-e-w] Re: new user keybindings
From: |
Mathias Dahl |
Subject: |
[h-e-w] Re: new user keybindings |
Date: |
Wed, 19 Jul 2006 09:15:50 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> Eli, please... Why stretch things into absurdity?
>
> It's a valid style of arguing about something.
Maybe sometimes. But often it just suffocates the whole discussion.
It's very black and white.
> Yes, but the price for using so many single-character bindings
C-y, C-w, C-l, C-q, C-u, C-e, C-a? ... :)
> heavy: look how heavily they use function keys and Shift/Ctrl/Alt
> variations of them. It's a pain to type with such bindings.
I guess that is a matter of taste. I don't have any problem with
bindings like Shift+Ctrl+<char>.
But yes, it would be very cool if Windows support multi-character key
bindings, like Emacs do.
> Anyway, this is going nowhere: Emacs will never turn CUA on by
> default. We might as well stop arguing.
I apologize for not following this thread closely enough then -- I
would never propose such a thing.
Hmm, I just checked my Options menu under w32, and CUA mode is one of
the first options, nice!