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Re: Menu suggestion
From: |
Kim F. Storm |
Subject: |
Re: Menu suggestion |
Date: |
25 Apr 2004 01:02:24 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
> We have the "Options" menu "CUA-style cut and paste"
>
> I think we should rename this to something like
>
> "C-x/C-c/C-v cut and paste"
>
> or "PC-like cut and paste".
>
> Now both names are obviously less complete and accurate as the current
> menu.
If you hoover the cursor over that menu item, it says:
Use C-z/C-x/C-c/C-v for undo/cut/copy/paste
I don't mind changing the menu text if people can agree on
something better.
>
> The problem with the current menu name, however, is that nobody has a
> clue what "CUA-style" is. Or at least: those that _do_ know CUA-style
> by name would have no trouble whatsoever to figure out the meaning of
> the less precise names.
>
> Whereas the other way round things happen to be different...
I had a wild idea some time ago --
Let the tutorial start out by telling about the ability to turn on
CUA-mode for the benefit of users who are used to the C-x C-c etc.
And of course how to do it.
Then, if the user actually turns on CUA-mode at this point (or has
done so already), the tutorial should automatically shift to show how
to use emacs with the CUA-style bindings.
A big advantage of this would be that the tutorial could just skip all
about native navigation --a user who already uses C-x C-c etc before
he starts learning emacs will also be using the cursor keys, pgdn
pgup, etc. So there's no reason to tell him about C-f C-b etc, or C-v
M-v etc. (and C-v doesn't work the emacs way anyway...).
This means that the average user will have a faster path to start
using emacs...
I know the keyboard purist elite is very fond of emacs' traditional
bindings, but they do make emacs more difficult to learn than
emacs+CUA.
WDYT about a CUA-aware tutorial.
--
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk
- Menu suggestion, David Kastrup, 2004/04/23
- Re: Menu suggestion, Robert J. Chassell, 2004/04/24
- Re: Menu suggestion,
Kim F. Storm <=
- Re: Menu suggestion, Richard Stallman, 2004/04/25
- Re: Menu suggestion, Kim F. Storm, 2004/04/26
- Re: Menu suggestion, Miles Bader, 2004/04/26
- Re: Menu suggestion, Kim F. Storm, 2004/04/26
- Re: Menu suggestion, Richard Stallman, 2004/04/27
- Re: Menu suggestion, Kim F. Storm, 2004/04/27
- Re: Menu suggestion, Jan Nieuwenhuizen, 2004/04/27
- Re: Menu suggestion, Kim F. Storm, 2004/04/27
- Re: Menu suggestion, Per Abrahamsen, 2004/04/30
- Re: Menu suggestion, Stefan Monnier, 2004/04/30