Xah's writings on emacs are fairly solid, but he's got the completely misguided idea that changing emacs to act like a typical MS Windows app is worth the drop in productivity for the power users, the probably huge amount of development time and getting rid of terminal-based emacs just to make newbies with a mouse fixation happy*. And unfortunately that idea permeates his writings. So be careful about taking his customization advice at face value. Especially the keybinding advice. It will almost certainly make your emacs act vastly differently from the documentation, which is not a good thing if you're new to emacs and need to refer to the docs a lot just to get around.

* Needless to say: almost nobody who cares enough about emacs to spend time working on it agrees with that. Mice are really only useful in a very limited subset of text/code editing. Most of the time they just get in the way, and modal dialogs are NEVER a good idea in a system as flexible as emacs.

"What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"

In reply to Re^6: Getting into Emacs? by Joost
in thread Getting into Emacs? by tmallen

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