Re: Emacs learning curve

[David Kastrup]

Stephen Eilert <address@hidden> writes:

> 4- Defaults
>   Here's where CUA comes in. Users expect the usual copy and paste
> behavior (including the ability to copy and paste among application)
> and *will* get completely confused by Emacs' kill-ring. The kill-ring
> is nice, but it is not straightforward to explain without visual
> feedback.

If people supposedly get confused by the behavior of yank and kill as
opposed to copy&paste, I doubt that we'd be doing them a great service
by calling them "copy&paste" and putting them on copy&paste keybindings.

-- 
David Kastrup