> On Friday 25 July 2008, Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:

>> The difficulties are in the details. You kind of use your body memory
>> when doing such things. On Windows the menus does not work from the
>> keyboard as in other programs by default and that defeats the body memory.

>
> Menus? What menus?
>
> If you hate C-x C-f you can rebind it (C-o in CUA, right?), you can use the
> "disk key" as provided by disk.el, you have dired, or you get Windows
> Explorer calling ... what was that? gnuclientw.exe? I think that's what I
> used. I just browsed folders with Windows Explorer and pressed Enter on a
> file, or 2*clicked it, or drag'n'dropped it into Emacs.
>
> In Emacs, and this is just an opinion, activating menus from keyboard is a
> corner-case, not a normal (as in "frequently performed") procedure. But, if
> that's your procedure, fine. But then, I don't think it's Emacs making it
> difficult ...