On 12.12.2010, at 20:50, Manolo Gouy wrote:

>> 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.

+1

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