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"Sane defaults" is a thing, but the sanity supporting the defaults changes every couple of decades. E.g., re the GP's complaint about lack of CUA: CUA is an IB
by MonkeyClub 4y ago
"Sane defaults" is a thing, but the sanity supporting the defaults changes every couple of decades.
E.g., re the GP's complaint about lack of CUA: CUA is an IBM effort to standardize a dozen shortcuts that are considered more or less universally useful.
But Emacs predates CUA by a couple of decades, and supports easy access to an insanely wider (two, three orders of magnitude) space of functionality.
If you want CUA, Notepad is 100% conformant.
Disclaimer: Yes I would adore a clean pure new Emacs, but given the dearth of Stallmans, the new Emacs would take even longer to not have CUA by default.
- morelisp 4y agoMost people today would freak out given only CUA cut/copy/paste though. It's also too old. Panta rhei - you can either pick a tool that comes with you, or deal with switching at each stop on the river.
- abrax3141 4y agoWithout the kill ring I would have to kill myself :-)
- robonerd 4y ago> But Emacs predates CUA by a couple of decades Only a couple of years if you're taking GNU Emacs specifically. About one decade if you're talking about editor macros for TECO.