Re: Emacs learning curve

[Tom]

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, so Emacs 
works like all other modern application on KDE/Gnome/Windows, etc. and the
current behavior should be provided as a compatibility mode for those who
are accustomed to the old behavior.

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.