Re: Emacs learning curve

[Lennart Borgman]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Miles Bader <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Emacs is already mode dependent since it is using keybindings with
>> several steps.
>
> [That is not a mode in the normal sense -- people don't think of "oh,
> I'll enter C-x mode, then hit C-s," they think of the entire thing
> sequence as a single entity.  So the downsides normally attributed to
> modality don't really apply.]


Of course it is a mode in the normal sense, however with a short life.

It can create trouble for someone used to CUA keys where you cut with
C-x or copy with C-c.


>> Of course this work around is not needed any more of CUA would be made
>> a first class citizen in Emacs.
>
> No doubt --- but the costs of doing that (which you constantly seem to
> simply ignore) seem very high, and thus it is unlikely to happen.


So is not the best to find a way to minimize the cost?