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How do I configure emacs to use IBM CUA keys for mark copy delete and paste?

IBM CUA keys use C-Ins and S-Ins for copy and paste.

I find M-w and C-y difficult to use and would prefer to use what I'm more comfortable with.b

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    C-h f cua-mode. Although I see that it does not follow the IBM convention you mention...
    – NickD
    Commented May 31 at 8:15
  • You mention "CUA keys", but I think this is confusing people, because you aren't talking about "C-x", "C-c" and "C-v", which are what Emacs's cua-mode makes usable for cut, copy and paste. In your question, you mention "C-<insert>" and "S-<insert>". And in one of your comments, you mention shift-selection. But those things are usable in Emacs by default, with no configuration at all. So maybe you have inadvertently disabled them?
    – mmarshall540
    Commented Jun 30 at 21:14

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You can bind the desired keys using the bind-key function. In your init file :

(use-package bind-key
    :defer t
    :ensure t
    :bind
    (:map global-map
          (("C-<insert>" . kill-ring-save)
           ("S-<insert>"  . yank)
           )))

For more information :

(describe-function 'use-package)
(describe-function 'bind-key)
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  • That's perfect, now all I need is to mark text using shift and arrow. I assume I can do that by assigning something to set-mark-command but not sure how.
    – balanga
    Commented May 31 at 12:45
  • Try cua-mode for the shift-selection
    – amitp
    Commented Jun 1 at 15:45
  • Thanks for the pointer but how do I go about tryng cua-mode?
    – balanga
    Commented Jun 1 at 23:12
  • I guess you mean this - gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/CUA-Bindings.html
    – balanga
    Commented Jun 1 at 23:14

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