Re: Proposal: "C-z <letter>" reserved for users

[Bastian Beranek]

On Tue, Feb 9, 2021 at 1:56 PM Dmitry Gutov <dgutov@yandex.ru> wrote:
>
> On 09.02.2021 14:41, Gregory Heytings wrote:
> > Users who are trying Emacs for the first time have a direct access to
> > "Undo": it's in the tool bar, labeled "Undo".  If you put the mouse
> > there, it says "Undo last edits (C-x u)".
>
> That still requires extra research on the part of the user. As well as
> subsequent adaptation.
>
> > Moreover the bindings for
> > "undo" are not more exotic than those of copy (M-w), cut (C-w) and paste
> > (C-y).
>
> True, even though it is a bit more exotic (the advertised binding is a
> whole key sequence rather than a plain modifier+key).

By the way, why doesn't the menu suggest C-/ or C-_ for undo? I use
the former, it is particularly easy to type on english keyboards. I
personally find C-x u inacceptable for undo because repeated
operations are painful with that binding (have to press and release
control in rhythm with x, but not with u).