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.
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