Re: Emacs learning curve

[David Kastrup]

Tom <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup <dak <at> gnu.org> writes:
>> 
>> Coherency and clarity is much more important for gaining new developers
>> than customary keybindings.
>> 
>
>
> That's why CUA-style editing should be made the consistent default,

It is not consistent.  It is a precarious balance between CUA and the
Emacs bindings with a different philosophy.

> so Emacs works like all other modern application on KDE/Gnome/Windows,

There is no point in dumbing down the Emacs user interface like that.
C-x is there to stay.

> Advanced users should have no problem adding a single line to their
> .emacs to switch on the compatibility mode
> e.g. (enable-classic-bindings) and new users would enjoy the familiar
> CUA-style bindings out of the box.

What about "consistent" did you not understand?

-- 
David Kastrup