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The Modernization of Emacs: terminology buffer and keybinding

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Mon Jun 25 17:36:22 EDT 2007 
In article <1182731526.329068.101540 at c77g2000hse.googlegroups.com>,
Twisted  <twisted0n3 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jun 24, 7:19 pm, Robert Uhl <eadmun... at NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:

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> > emacs has continued doing its own thing, mostly because that thing is
> > better.  The CUA standards (there exists an emacs package if you really
> > want them) are broken and lame--I and most other don't wish to cripple
> > our text editor of choice.
> 
> "CUA standards"? I'm sorry, I don't speak Botswanan. If you mean
> Windows standards like for cut, copy, and paste, 

Pretty much.  "Common User Access".  I thought this was a 
well-known acronym in Windowsland, but I guess not.  A Google
search on "CUA" finds the Wikipedia article as the second hit.

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