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bug#28930: 24.5; cua-mode does not replace keyboard shortcuts in Edit me
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#28930: 24.5; cua-mode does not replace keyboard shortcuts in Edit menu |
Date: |
Fri, 02 Jul 2021 17:40:41 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org> writes:
> Someone has this customization in his ~/.emacs file:
> (cua-mode 1)
>
> This has the effect of enabling CUA mode. But the user is not
> aware of it, because the Edit menu displays:
>
> Undo C-x u
> Cut C-w
> Copy M-w
>
> As a consequence, the user does not feel familiar with this
> editor and does not dare to use the keystrokes he's familar with
> (Ctrl-C for Copy etc.).
>
> Suggestion: Make the Edit menu display
>
> Undo C-z
> Cut C-x
> Copy C-c
>
> Then the user would feel familiar and could use these
> keybindings without thinking about them.
(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately got little response at
the time.)
Let's see... this is from this stuff:
(bindings--define-key menu [copy]
;; ns-win.el said: Substitute a Copy function that works better
;; under X (for GNUstep).
`(menu-item "Copy" ,(if (featurep 'ns)
'ns-copy-including-secondary
'kill-ring-save)
:enable mark-active
:help "Copy text in region between mark and current position"
:keys ,(if (featurep 'ns)
"\\[ns-copy-including-secondary]"
"\\[kill-ring-save]")))
(etc)
I guess we could add a case for cua-mode in the :keys here, too? I've
never ever used cua-mode myself, though... C-x and C-x only work when
the region is active in cua-mode, I think? So... would it be accurate
to put them in the menu? I mean, we could check for an active region,
too, but would that be confusing?
Anybody have an opinion here?
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