Re: Emacs undo behavior frustrating for new users. (WAS: delete-selection-mode as default)

[Yuri Khan]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 1:44 PM Richard Stallman <address@hidden> wrote:

>   > Simple: C-z for Undo, C-S-z and possibly C-y for Redo, in cua-mode,
>
> C-z is an important Emacs command.  To change it would hurt anyone.
>
> CUA mode is not the main interface for Emacs.  To add this feature
> we need to have it work with the usual command set.

The target audience for a linear undo/redo system is likely to use
cua-mode, and also likely to not need suspend-frame (because they work
in a GUI Emacs and already have a window manager key binding to
minimize the GUI window).