Apologia for CUA mode

[Christophe Poncy]

On 2014-01-04 20:38, Lennart Borgman wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 4, 2014 at 8:00 PM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Tom <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > > Kill/yank comes to mind as obvious example. The copy/cut/paste
> > > terminology is pretty much standard, so the various kill/yank
> > > operations (kill-region, copy-region-as-kill, etc.) should
> > > be mapped to these terms.
> >
> > The problem I see with that is that the terms are mnemonics for the
> > keybindings: the kill bindings contain "k", the yank bindings "y".
> >
> > And (as you probably remember) the problem with that as I see it is 
> > the
> key bindings. Users expect CUA. ;-)

Not all. My mother who never touched a PC in its entire life likes emacs 
as it is :)

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