Re: Making Emacs more newbie friendly

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 15:34:07 +0100
> From: nfreimann <niels_freimann@yahoo.de>
> 
> Eli, what he wants to tell us is, that CUA bindings and GUI dialogs are 
> common today, and not proprietary key bindings and dialogs a la mini 
> buffer or something.

Emacs does have a CUA mode (the current CVS code allows to turn it on
from the Options menu).  Unfortunately, CUA keybindings are so
incompatible with traditional Emacs bindings that making them the
default would produce a terrible outcry among veteran users.