Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its bad side

Re:Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its b... by nikofeyn on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @01:56PM (#22425983)

> I'm an emacs user, and find the windows-y keyboard shortcuts foreign, so I have to think about them, and prefer just using the right-click mouse menu.

it's a little surprising to me that you can't remember cut, copy, and paste that works on any computer in the last two decades but can remember all of the esoteric emacs shortcuts, which include references to a key that doesn't even exist.

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Re:Google Chrome's fear of Microsoft Edge is revealing its b... by drewg123 on Wednesday February 26, 2020 @02:51PM (#22426603)

Emacs is unchanged muscle memory for the last 30+ years. Cut is ctrl-k (or ctrl-w depending on your perspective), yank is ctrl-y. How many WYSIWYG editors have risen and died in that time? How many desktop environments?

And the "cut copy and paste that works on any computer" -- on a windows pc its ctrl-blah, and on a mac its cmd-blah.

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