[alexhutcheson]

Unfortunately the rest of the software world settled on keybindings for cut and copy that generate almost the greatest possible pain for Emacs to migrate to them. C-c and C-x are used for dozens of the most important commands. It's technically feasible, but switching would be hard and existing users would be really upset.

[throwaway_pdp09]

I assure you I'd never propose to change emacs bindings at all, merely have a switchable alternate set. I think that would be possible? But even if you did so, there's too much else, far deeper that couldn't be amended. I think we agree it's not a credible proposition. I suspect emacs' enormous toolkit can't be exposed consistently without making it inconsistent. I can live with emacs as it is, very happily.