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by omaranto 1028 days ago
You don't mention any specific part of this so-called industry-standard UI that CUA mode does not provide. I guess if I were really motivated I could try to figure that out on my own, but it seems like a lot of effort because I'd have to play around with both CUA mode and some industry-standard editor (which I'd have to install first).
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I did, you know.

Big notable ones:

* The menu tree.

* The keystrokes to access the commands in that menu tree.

The terminology. I do not have a meta key. You don't have a meta key, either. No new computer since the 1970s has a meta key. I'm a keyboard collector with a deep fondness for clicky mechanical keyboards; in daily use I use a keyboard from 1991. It predates USB and the "Windows" key. It doesn't have a meta key.

Here's the Wikipedia entry on CUA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access

Which, incidentally, I expanded from a stub about 18 years ago.

Another excellent piece of evidence that cua-mode is inadequate is that ErgoEmacs exists: https://ergoemacs.github.io/

It's actually not bad, but it's a total pig to try to install and configure unless you are already an Emacs guru.