![]() It is not an option to change these basic key bindings to imitate other, newer editors. That, of course, would break the finger memory of large numbers of existing Emacs users, who would be unlikely to appreciate the disruption. Many participants in the discussion said that this mode should be on by default. These bindings are easily had by turning on the Cua mode, but new users tend not to know about this mode or how to enable it. On the keyboard side, users have come to expect certain actions from certain keystrokes ^X to cut a selection, ^V to paste it, etc. ![]() From that, a proper theme engine could be supported, making dark themes and such easily available to those who want them.Īnother area where Emacs is insufficiently "modern", it seems, has to do with keyboard and mouse bindings. But there does seem to be general agreement that Emacs could benefit from a better, more centralized approach to color themes, rather than having color names hard-coded throughout various Elisp packages. ![]() ![]() LWN.net re-visits the emacs-devel mailing list, where the Emacs 28 development cycle has revived discussions about how to make the text editor more "modern" and attractive to new users:Ī default dark theme may not be in the future, leading one to think that there may yet be hope for the world in general.
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