Re: Emacs learning curve

[Fren Zeee]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 11:08 PM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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.
>
A method must be devised that allows aliases type system so that those
who are using the older system dont have a problem and those who want
the microsoft type C-C and C-V can go there.

Basically, its like two nearest keys, V has no mnemonic relation to Paste.

Franz