[h-e-w] Re: new user keybindings

[Mathias Dahl]

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> Eli, please... Why stretch things into absurdity?
>
> It's a valid style of arguing about something.

Maybe sometimes.  But often it just suffocates the whole discussion.
It's very black and white.

> Yes, but the price for using so many single-character bindings 

C-y, C-w, C-l, C-q, C-u, C-e, C-a? ... :)

> heavy: look how heavily they use function keys and Shift/Ctrl/Alt
> variations of them.  It's a pain to type with such bindings.

I guess that is a matter of taste.  I don't have any problem with
bindings like Shift+Ctrl+<char>.

But yes, it would be very cool if Windows support multi-character key
bindings, like Emacs do.

> Anyway, this is going nowhere: Emacs will never turn CUA on by
> default.  We might as well stop arguing.

I apologize for not following this thread closely enough then -- I
would never propose such a thing.

Hmm, I just checked my Options menu under w32, and CUA mode is one of
the first options, nice!