'Emacs style' delete line shortcut (CTRL/U) doesn't work correctly in Firefox

[Liam Proven]

On Fri, 12 Oct 2018 at 11:37, Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:

> >
> Neither do I but using the same editor to manage text in every
> application is a big advantage IMHO.  I often get very cross when
> trying to change some text somewhere and I can't use my 'standard'
> (well, built into my fingers) to do it.

Sort of my point.

The basic CUA editor is embedded into every text field in every GUI
app in the world. Attach a hardware keyboard and it even works on iOS,
Android etc.

So I want a desktop editor that works the same as that.

The battle is over. The Emacs and Vi UIs may be better in some
measurable way -- I don't think they are, but I'm giving the benefit
of the doubt -- but they are out of step with basically *all other
user-interactive software in the world*.

Both could be modernised. CREAM looks like a pretty good update of Vi
- http://cream.sourceforge.net/

ErgoEmacs is a brave attempt to update Emacs - http://ergoemacs.org/

AquaMacs does it a different way, layering a Mac OS X GUI _on top of_
the largely-unmodified Emacs one -- http://aquamacs.org/

But making Vi fully CUA-compliant means it's not Vi any more, because
the Vi UI model is profoundly different.

Emacs, not so much. They could do it. But there's a lot of hostility
and resistance, and I don't really understand why.


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