Re: First UI component needing replacement.

[Dylan Griffiths <Dylan_G bigfoot com>]

"Christopher D. Beland" wrote:
> 
> Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> writes...
> > As of 20.7, there's no file dialog in Emacs.  So don't bother
> > looking.  (OTOH, there _is_ a file manager, which is easy to use.)
> 
> There is a completions dialog, which I use and like.  Though much of
> its behavior is not applicable when you have GUI capabilities.  Not
> that XEmacs does much of a better job (sheesh).  It would be nice if
> standard Emacs keys (C-a for beginning of line, etc.) - which many
> Unix users are used to - worked.

Except that ctrl+a is already Well Known as select all.

The problem with using any Emacs ideas, is that all the shortcuts in it are
completely counter to 12+ years of common shortcuts on the Win32 and
Macintosh platforms.  This makes them fairly useless.

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