- The Meta key was surprisingly a nice thing as I moved to a macbook, as I already didn't think of an Alt as Alt, but I agree, it should be changed. - Richard S

- The Meta key was surprisingly a nice thing as I moved to a macbook, as I already didn't think of an Alt as Alt, but I agree, it should be changed. - Richard Stallman was actually ok with this change, he said that it should take a couple of releases so that users don't get confused, but he was in principle ok with it. - This will be very hard to change, for two reasons: Emacs is older than these conventions, and the mailing list argument was that it is not the fault of Emacs that CUA was a mistake, as it didn't follow earlier conventions that Emacs did. The second reason is that Emacs is primarily a bridge from Windows to GNU, so GNU users will be treated with priority. - This is solved in emacs-29, and it works quite nicely. - This is in the works, but it is hard work, see the pgtk branch. - There are elpa packages for these, like vlf, but I agree it should be more of a priority in core Emacs. I think there are always efforts to improve these as well. - Perhaps, they have been conservative with these values. - I think there is also a mode for that, but it should be done in core. I think one of the arguments here was that sometimes, it is better to make the user type "yes" instead of "y", for more critical actions. - I have no comment on this one, but I would add the ability to scroll without the point--cursor--following me around. The main problem, as they often mention on the mailing list, is that the manpower is low. There is no reason they don't want to solve the large technical problems, like very large files.