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From: | Lennart Borgman |
Subject: | Re: CUA mode??? |
Date: | Mon, 6 Jan 2014 02:34:05 +0100 |
Eli said that there's more than one interpretation of CUA:On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Lennart Borgman
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>> Also, didn't cua-mode already `fix' this:
>>
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/CUA-Bindings.html
>>
>> Though that brings me to something that's been bugging me since someone
>> first told me (last year) that cua-mode had actually gone into emacs:
>> my recollection from the early 1990s was that the CUA keystrokes for
>> cut, copy, and paste were *not* C-x, C-c, and C-v; but rather
>> S-delete, C-insert, and S-insert (respectively). These were the
>> keystrokes that I remember using in Windows at the time, and
>> what I've also been using in Emacs and other applications in X11
>> since about that time, and even what I used in applications on
>> Mac OS X when I needed to use it just a couple of years ago.
>>
>> Wikipedia seems to agree with my memory rather than what's in the Emacs
>> manual:
>>
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_User_Access
>>
>> Did the CUA spec actually change to use C-x, C-c, C-v at some point, or
>> is Emacs cua-mode mistaken about which standard it's implementing?
>
> Ah, so you mean that cua-mode was also badly named in Emacs in should be
> renamed? ;-)
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2013-04/msg00499.html
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