>>>>> "PaCo" == p connolly <p_conno...@slingshot.co.nz>
>>>>> on Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:19:31 +1200 writes:
PaCo> On Mon, 31-Aug-2009 at 08:25PM +1000, Jim Lemon wrote:
PaCo> [...]
PaCo> |> Hi Liviu,
PaCo> |> I was going to steer clear of this one, as my favorite editor
(NEdit)
PaCo> |> has become mildly incompatible with my favorite window manager
(KDE) on
PaCo> |> my favorite operating system (Linux) and I have sadly taken to
using
PaCo> |> KWrite, hoping that things will get better. Still, one must not get
PaCo> |> stuck in a rut, so I decided to download Emacs and try it again.
Twenty
PaCo> |> four megabytes poorer, I find that things are much the same. Emacs
still
PaCo> |> has that annoying trait of being determinedly incompatible with
anything
PaCo> |> else, even if the conventions are quite sensible. Thus most of my
PaCo> |> keyboard shortcuts that I use all the time just don't work. Do I
want to
PaCo> |> learn Emacs shortcuts so that I will hit the wrong key shortcuts
on all
PaCo> |> my other applications?
PaCo> I sympathize. I prefer the keyboard shortcuts that WordStar used.
PaCo> The "diamond" was so intuitive. However, even though I could have
PaCo> configured Emacs to use the WordStar diamond, I noticed that strange
PaCo> and all as it is, the Emacs shortcut system is vastly more extensive
and
PaCo> adaptable. Now I rarely think of WordStar.
PaCo> Because they're so utterly different from what ordinary software uses,
PaCo> I don't find much confusion on the occasions where I use said ordinary
PaCo> software. One tends not to get German vocabulary confused with
Chinese vocab.
:-)
PaCo> I think it will be a very long time before Emacs follows
PaCo> the mob, and if it does, many of us will want an option to use the
PaCo> strange old system.
well, actually, since Emacs 23, in its 'Options' Menu there's
now a check-box entry
" C-x/C-c/C-v Cut and Paste (CUA) "
((which still is "off" by default ;-))
but the person used to German instead of Chinese can just click
that and also click " Save Options " on the same menu
and have the default changed.....
... not that I would do that ever ...
Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
PaCo> --
PaCo> Patrick Connolly
PaCo> Plant & Food Research
PaCo> Mt Albert
PaCo> Auckland
PaCo> New Zealand
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