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Re: Menu suggestion
From: |
Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: Menu suggestion |
Date: |
Sun, 25 Apr 2004 19:35:47 -0400 |
If you hoover the cursor over that menu item, it says:
Use C-z/C-x/C-c/C-v for undo/cut/copy/paste
There is no need to make the menu item complete
in describing the changes this mode makes.
C-x/C-c/C-v cut and paste
would be better for the menu item text.
The rest of the info could be in a help string.
A big advantage of this would be that the tutorial could just skip all
about native navigation --a user who already uses C-x C-c etc before
he starts learning emacs will also be using the cursor keys, pgdn
pgup, etc. So there's no reason to tell him about C-f C-b etc, or C-v
M-v etc. (and C-v doesn't work the emacs way anyway...).
I disagree. We want users to be offered the chance to learn
the efficient ways to do these things.
Also, this proposal would require two versions of all the translated
tutorials. That just seems like too much work.
I know the keyboard purist elite is very fond of emacs' traditional
bindings, but they do make emacs more difficult to learn than
emacs+CUA.
Why do you think the traditional Emacs bindings are harder to learn
than these bindings?
- Menu suggestion, David Kastrup, 2004/04/23
- Re: Menu suggestion, Robert J. Chassell, 2004/04/24
- Re: Menu suggestion, Kim F. Storm, 2004/04/24
- Re: Menu suggestion,
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: Menu suggestion, Kim F. Storm, 2004/04/26
- Re: Menu suggestion, Miles Bader, 2004/04/26
- Re: Menu suggestion, Kim F. Storm, 2004/04/26
- Re: Menu suggestion, Richard Stallman, 2004/04/27
- Re: Menu suggestion, Kim F. Storm, 2004/04/27
- Re: Menu suggestion, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2004/04/27
- Re: Menu suggestion, Kim F. Storm, 2004/04/27
- Re: Menu suggestion, Per Abrahamsen, 2004/04/30
- Re: Menu suggestion, Stefan Monnier, 2004/04/30
- Re: Menu suggestion, Kim F. Storm, 2004/04/30