Toward a "modern" Emacs

Omitting the Emacs/Unix-specific step of invoking LaTeX, Excel or just about any spreadsheet can do it just fine. Again, the old joke is "Emacs is a great operating system, lacking only a decent editor". Why should I open a CSV file in a text editor and expect it to be treated like a spreadsheet?

> One more thing: the Real CUA key combinations for cut (Shift-Del), copy (Ctrl-Ins) and paste (Shift-Ins) are also available. Apple forced us to learn new key combinations for those functions.

Because the original ones were horrible? Maybe if any two keyboards kept Del and Ins in the same spot, I could learn to touch-type with them, but that would still require moving my right hand from the normal position.