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bug#43323: Rename cua-mode to something better?
From: |
Sebastian Urban |
Subject: |
bug#43323: Rename cua-mode to something better? |
Date: |
Sun, 13 Sep 2020 17:49:44 +0200 |
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In my opinion, these menu entry name & manual changes are unnecessary.
So, after reading "Gather a list of confusions beginner tend to have"
thread in emacs-devel, especially (part of) message by Tomas:
Witness: CUA. Most people think these days "CUA" means: "Copy" [1]
is bound to "C-c", "Cut" [2] is bound to "C-x" and "Paste" [3] to
"C-v".
But according to IBM's "Common User Architecture" (aka "CUA" [4]),
it's "C-Insert", "S-Del", and "S-Ins" respectively. But Apple's [5]
infantilised version ("C-x" is the "scissors", etc.) somehow snuck
in.
I guess I was too optimistic about CUA "standard", and proposal to
rename cua-mode to something else, as well as other related changes,
are actually good.
S. U.
- bug#43323: Rename cua-mode to something better?, (continued)
bug#43323: Rename cua-mode to something better?, Sebastian Urban, 2020/09/11
- bug#43323: Rename cua-mode to something better?, Robert Pluim, 2020/09/11
- bug#43323: Rename cua-mode to something better?, Stefan Kangas, 2020/09/11
- bug#43323: Rename cua-mode to something better?, Stefan Kangas, 2020/09/11
- bug#43323: Rename cua-mode to something better?, Sebastian Urban, 2020/09/11
- bug#43323: Rename cua-mode to something better?, Stefan Kangas, 2020/09/11
- bug#43323: Rename cua-mode to something better?, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/12
- bug#43323: Rename cua-mode to something better?, Sebastian Urban, 2020/09/12
- bug#43323: Rename cua-mode to something better?,
Sebastian Urban <=
bug#43323: Rename cua-mode to something better?, Eli Zaretskii, 2020/09/12
bug#43323: Rename cua-mode to something better?, Stefan Kangas, 2020/09/13
bug#43323: Rename cua-mode to something better?, Stefan Kangas, 2020/09/13
bug#43323: Rename cua-mode to something better?, Richard Stallman, 2020/09/11