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Re: not good proposal: "C-z <letter>" reserved for users


From: tomas
Subject: Re: not good proposal: "C-z <letter>" reserved for users
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2021 19:03:23 +0100
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 06:56:25PM +0100, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the 
GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
> Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> 
> > M-0 is not too bad, but I think we can agree that 99/100 new
> > users will look for 'undo' on 'C-z'.
> 
> But they will also look for ... I don't even remember any
> more, what are the Windows keys for copy, paste, etc? Not our
> keys for kill and yank anyway.
> 
> There is a mode to get those keys BTW. Not sure if it includes
> C-z...

Yes, the mode is called "CUA bindings", it is documented, and yes,
C-z is bound to "undo" there. It seems we can make everyone happy.

Unless, that is, someone wants to force me to use C-z for undo,
because I'm happy with C-x u :-)

Cheers
 - t

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