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Re: About CUA mode


From: Xue Fuqiao
Subject: Re: About CUA mode
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2013 06:36:49 +0800

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:29:54 +0800
>> From: Xue Fuqiao <xfq.free@gmail.com>
>>
>> This page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access) says that:
>>
>>   The Cut command is Shift+Del; Copy is Ctrl+Ins; Paste is Shift+Ins;
>>
>> But in cua-mode, `C-x', `C-c', `C-v', and `C-z' invoke commands that cut
>> (kill), copy, paste (yank), and undo respectively.  Why?
>
> Why not?  The keys mentioned by Wikipedia _also_ do in CUA Mode what
> Wikipedia says they should, so what's exactly the problem?
>
> IOW, there's more than one interpretation of CUA, and Emacs supports
> them all, or at least tries to.  The second group of keys you mention
> is what is known as "CUA" on DOS and Windows systems.

Ah, I see, thank you.  The keys mentioned by Wikipedia is not documented
in the manual (at least I didn't find it).

--
Best regards, Xue Fuqiao.
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