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On Wednesday 20 October 2004 10:21 am, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 09:31:26AM +0200, Nicolas Ratier wrote:
> >> a _separate_ "CUA/Windows" keybinding style would make you even happier?
> >
> > That a good solution, I use TeXmacs under Suse/KDE, for memory the
> > following keys are the standard shortcut key bindings included in
> > the KDE distribution.
>
> Of CUA/Windowsy inspiration and in total break with any kind of Unixy
> inspiration. How these people can claim they are developing a Desktop
> for Unix with a straight face is beyond me.

Well it is hard to move people from Windows to Linux if they have to relearn
keybinding. Actually, I should say it is hard to move math professors, 50 -
70 year old math professors, who have spent the last 10 years learning
Windows keybinding onto Linux if they have to relearn what is basically a
physical memory.

A 60 year old math professor might stand over my sholder and say "That sure
is
a nice program". But they get frustrated and dump it because it doesn't act
like any programs they know. And new users want a desktop environment like
KDE or GNOME. And TeXmacs is geared towards them, but it doesn't act like
KDE or GNOME.

Right now graduate students in the department complain if I forget to install
TeXmacs for them because they can learn to live with the differences. But
not people who are set in their ways.

> > How many people would like to use these keys with TeXmacs ?
>
> <troll mood="excessively aggressive and insulting">
> One.
> </troll>

At least two :)

- mark

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• [TeXmacs] C-x, C-c, C-v, Nicolas Ratier, 10/19/2004
  • Re: [TeXmacs] C-x, C-c, C-v, Lionel Elie Mamane, 10/19/2004
    • Re: [TeXmacs] C-x, C-c, C-v, Nicolas Ratier, 10/20/2004
      • Re: [TeXmacs] C-x, C-c, C-v, Lionel Elie Mamane, 10/20/2004
        • Re: [TeXmacs] C-x, C-c, C-v, Mark Arrasmith, 10/20/2004
          • Re: [TeXmacs] C-x, C-c, C-v, Nachiketa Sahoo, 10/20/2004
          • [OT] Of Ease of Use and World Domination, Lionel Elie Mamane, 10/20/2004
            • Re: [TeXmacs] [OT] Of Ease of Use and World Domination, Joris van der Hoeven, 10/20/2004
              • C-e and end of line, Lionel Elie Mamane, 10/20/2004
              • Re: [TeXmacs] C-e and end of line, Karl Hegbloom, 10/24/2004
    • Re: [TeXmacs] C-x, C-c, C-v, Joris van der Hoeven, 10/20/2004

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