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bug#43323: Rename cua-mode to something better?


From: Richard Stallman
Subject: bug#43323: Rename cua-mode to something better?
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2020 23:51:04 -0400

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  > Then menu entry could be renamed to "Use Common Editing Bindings" or
  > "Use Common Bindings" with short description - "Use C-z/C-x/C-c/C-v
  > keys for undo/cut/copy/paste" - inside the tooltip.

Instead of "Use common bindings", whose meaning is not obvious unless
you've been told, I suggest calling it "undo/cut/copy/paste: Emacs" or
"undo/cut/copy/paste: a la mode", depending on which one it would be
switching to.  Or just "undo/cut/copy/paste" if there is no need to indicate
which one it would be switching to.

Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> wrote:

  > The users we’re trying to help are already used to Redo being bound to
  > Ctrl+Shift+Z (because Redo is the inverse of Undo which is usually on
  > Ctrl+Z).

It is a general Emacs convention taht Ctrl-Shift-LETTER is equivalent to
Ctrl-LETTER.  But since this would be an optional alternate set of bindings,
there is no reason not to do it that way.

Perhaps that one option would rebind C-Sh-Z along with C-z.

HOWEVER, on ttys there is the danger that the user would have
no way to suspend Emacs.  It's not enough to define one,
we have to inform these users of it and make sure they know it.

Any ideas?



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