I'm sorry, but this simply doesn't apply here. The first rule of good UI design is to always go for the least surprising path. Emacs is anything but familiar fo

I'm sorry, but this simply doesn't apply here. The first rule of good UI design is to always go for the least surprising path. Emacs is anything but familiar for a first time user. Everything about it is different, including a huge number of things that don't need to be, like the basic shortcuts: copy/paste, save, search etc. I'd be _really_ interested in a .emacs with enough balls to break completely with tradition, even if it would sacrifice some of the most used current shortcuts. My meager attempts made it a lot easier in the beginning, because I could at least use instinctive shortcuts for save/load/compile etc. But I cheated: I used the old Borland standard (F2 save F3 load F9 compile). For the real deal you'd have to do something about the all-mighty C- shortcuts.