Re: Emacs undo behavior frustrating for new users. (WAS: delete-selection-mode as default)

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2018-10-16, at 08:44, Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:

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>   > Simple: C-z for Undo, C-S-z and possibly C-y for Redo, in cua-mode,
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> C-z is an important Emacs command.  To change it would hurt anyone.

FWIW, I find the default binding of C-z totally useless and a waste of
a good keybinding.  I rebound it as a prefix key for my keymap
containing lots of useful commands.

So not anyone (though this change would hurt _me_, but for other
reasons).

Just one data point.

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
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