On 17 июн, 19:13, Xah Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the following, i describe some critical changes that are also very > easy to fix in emacs. If emacs officially adopt these changes, i think > it will make a lot people, at least programers, like emacs and choose > emacs as their text editor. > > * Change the keyboard shortcut of Copy & Paste to ctrl-c and ctrl- > v as to be the same with all modern applications. > There is a CUA-mode.
> * Get rid of the *scratch* buffer. > I agree that it should be off by default. I hope that only a minority of emacs users are emacs developers ;-) > * Change the terminology of "kill" to "cut", and "yank" to > "paste". > In my emacs 21 in menu it says just that. > * Change the terminology of Meta key to Alt. > I guess emacs is not for PC only... > * Make longlines-mode the default editor behavior for any file. > This is doubtful, but I agree that all modes (LaTeX etc) should at least work correctly with longlines mode. > * When opening a HTML document, automatically provide highlighting > of HTML, CSS, and Javascript codes. Similarly for other multi-language > files such as PHP, JSP, et al. This behavior must be automatic without > requiring user to customize emacs. > For me it opens R files with proper highlighting out-of-the-box -_-; > * Reduce the use of the word "buffer" in the emacs documentation. > Call it "opened file" or "unsaved document". > As far as I understand the concept of buffer is much much wider than of "unsaved document" or "file". Should we call dired buffer as "unsaved document"? > Xah > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://xahlee.org/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
