Re: Emacs for new users

[Deniz Dogan]

2009/11/30 Giorgos Keramidas <address@hidden>:
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:04:47 -0500, Chong Yidong <address@hidden> wrote:
>>Lennart Borgman <address@hidden> writes:
>>>> With that said, I think a solution to the learning-emacs-in-classroom and
>>>> emacs-for-new-users problems is the same: include a .emacs which turns
>>>> on things like CUA mode to make operation more familiar.
>>>
>>> The problem is that it does not work as good as it could in all
>>> situations. Since CUA is not the default not so much effort in
>>> getting rid of all ruogh things. Not that you can't work around them,
>>> but it is not so easy for a newcomer.
>>
>> The primary barrier to CUA is that it destroys the long-established
>> standard that C-c LETTER is free for binding to Emacs user commands.
>>
>> So we won't be moving to CUA any time soon.  For those that want it,
>> it's just a click away on the Options menu.
>
> CUA also interferes in a non-trivial manner with `C-x', which is used
> far more often than `C-c'.  I am always annoyed a bit when I start
> typing `C-x C-f' but pause half-way through to think of a good name for
> a new buffer, only to notice that a region has just been killed.  Oops!
>
> Having said that I like CUA mode a lot (especially the rectangular
> selection mode and region highlighting).  It is useful even when Emacs
> runs inside xterm windows, so it is enabled more often than not in my
> Emacs sessions of late.
>
>

I only use the rectangle part of CUA selection mode. I don't see why
the recangle part is in that mode in the first place, as I'm sure many
non-CUA enthusiasts would like to use it. I wasn't even aware that it
existed and was for too long somewhat dissatisfied with the standard
rectangles of Emacs.

So this is off-topic, but why is the "new" rectangle functionality part of CUA?

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Deniz Dogan