On Monday, July 25, 2016 at 10:56:41 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 3:11 AM, Rustom Mody wrote: > > On Monday, July 25, 2016 at 10:32:45 PM UTC+5:30, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 2:54 AM, Rustom Mody wrote: > >> > The whole world uses cua keys: > >> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access > >> > [emacs] proudly sticks to what it was doing pre-cua > >> > >> Sadly, the "whole world" doesn't. Windows itself lacks quite a few of > >> the CUA keys (ask a Windows user how to move a window with the > >> keyboard, and s/he won't say "Alt-F7"), and some Windows applications > >> make this even worse (Adobe Reader egregiously so - you can't even use > >> Ctrl-Ins to copy to the clipboard, despite all the rest of Windows > >> supporting it). > > > > Ok I was speaking in-a-manner-of-speaking -- in two ways > > All means most > > Cua means the most common cua-keys — C-x C-c C-v > > of which the first two specially are so deeply embedded into emacs as > > prefixes > > for 100s of other functions that its hard to change without significant > > upheaval > > Wrong - CUA's standard keys are Shift-Del, Ctrl-Ins, Shift-Ins for the > same operations. The alphabetics are not part of the CUA standard. > That said, though, most applications support both - primarily because > most GUI widgets are built to support both, and applications are > taught to respond to signals like 'paste'.
You must be right Ironically I learnt the word cua from emacs’ cua-mode which basically make C-c C-x C-v (dont know which others) behave like the rest of the world expects. Trouble is the first two are so deeply enmeshed into emacs that it does a bad job of it. And conventional wisdom in emacs land is to avoid it and get used to the (30+ year old!) emacs standard -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list