> On 12.12.2010 18:24, Greg Ercolano wrote:
>
> >     Or just stick with 'default' and abandon emacs style edit keys
> >     altogether.
>
> +1
>
> why? I believe that "emacs style edit keys" is something for
> software developers, but software is /written/ for /users/.
>
> Personally I never used emacs (although I've been a software
> developer all the time), and I simply don't know them. Most,
> if not all users of our commercial apps, won't know them as
> well, and thus they may be surprised if they hit a key that
> they are used to do something and experience something else.
>
> One example is CTRL/A: fortunately moving the cursor to the
> beginning of the text is only a little annoying, but there may
> be keys combinations that do something "disastrous" that is
> not expected by the user.
>
> Albrecht

+1 to abandon emacs style edits.

The "disatrous" combination exists: ctrl-U, expected to move to the end
of the line, and instead deletes everything.
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