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Re: Emacs learning curve


From: Uday S Reddy
Subject: Re: Emacs learning curve
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:04:44 +0100
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On 7/14/2010 11:31 AM, Tom wrote:

That's why CUA-style editing should be made the consistent default, so Emacs
works like all other modern application on KDE/Gnome/Windows, etc. and the
current behavior should be provided as a compatibility mode for those who
are accustomed to the old behavior.

Instead of asking for the defaults to be changed, why can't you, or anybody else that is interested, create configuration files, called KDE-Emacs or Windows-Emacs or whatever, which fit into such environments? The Mac-uses seem to be doing it with Aquamacs etc.

(We had a big row about line-move-visual, not because it was a question of defaults, but because the default setting changed the meaning of next-line, which broke or potentially broke various applications running on Emacs. Stefan's defence that the Emacs 23 compiler flagged the problem was completely satisfactory.)

Emacs is configurable, free software, which can be tweaked by everybody. There is no need to react to it as if it were some proprietary, commercial software where you are dependent on the gods to do everything.

Cheers,
Uday




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