Ever notice how happy you are when a GUI just feels familiar? Many interfaces today use the "Common User Access" (CUA) spec to achieve this.
For example, do you like Ctrl-C/X/V for copy/cut/paste? That is part of the CUA standard! There are many other aspects of dialog boxes and other GUI widgets and things we can thank IBM for standardizing! ..And, Microsoft Windows for promoting!!! See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_User_Access . Well, I'm excited because it appears Emacs 22.1 is a new release 6 years in the making that follows CUA!!! Ever notice how Emacs used to just somewhat "feel" like it was outdated?!? Well now that it uses GTK+ instead of Motif along with CUA it should look and feel much better. This is huge. Now you can do Ctrl-C/X/V in Emacs without having to write those commands in Lisp like I did among other niceties. Hope that helps someone. Chris -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
