Re: A more modest proposal

[Stefan Monnier]

> 1) cua-selection-mode, or its moral equivalent
> cua-selection-mode doesn't play games C-c and C-x or interfere with any
> normal Emacs keybinding, but it does give users bindings for
> control-insert, shift-insert, and shift-delete.

  in Emacs-20.7
  C-h c <C-insert> says it runs kill-ring-save
  C-h c <S-insert> says it runs yank
  C-h c <S-delete> says it runs kill-region

and this hasn't changed since, so I think we've had those standard
bindings for a while now.

> Adopting this binding will ensure Emacs has the most natural and common
> behavior on C-z for a given environment. Besides, not much of value is
> lost: why bother with C-z in a windowing system when the system probably
> provides its own idiomatic way of minimizing a window?

I don't really care about the behavior of C-z in a GUI frame, so if
someone wants to change it, feel free.  I would agree with Deniz that
the current behavior of iconifying the frame can be confusing, so maybe
it should prompt instead and then remember the answer in the .emacs.


        Stefan