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Re: CUA-mode and conflicts with C-x commands


From: Lennart Borgman
Subject: Re: CUA-mode and conflicts with C-x commands
Date: Tue, 4 May 2010 23:17:41 +0200

On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 2:50 PM, LanX <lanx.perl@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Shortcut conflict or another clash of civilizations ...
>
> In CUA-mode I regularly get bitten by unwanted deletes of regions with
> C-x when trying to save or alike...
>
> There different (intelligent) approaches I can think of are:
>
> a) moving CUA's kill to C-x C-x
> b) undoing the kill if C-x is followed by C-x
> c) automatically undoing the kill if C-x is followed by C-s and alike
> d) shifting the most frequent C-x mode-map commands to other bindings
>
> what do you suggest?

I am always using S-C-x when I don't want to delete the region. It
took some days to get used to it, but it is not very difficult since I
actually have a visual clue there (since the region is visually
marked).

But this is easier to do if you are using sticky keys (see EmacsWiki).

> cheers
>  rolf
>




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