If you're on Linux and running GTK-{2,3} applications, you can also have emacs key-bindings in your text entry fields (in firefox, nautilus, gmrun etc), with a

If you're on Linux and running GTK-{2,3} applications, you can also have emacs key-bindings in your text entry fields (in firefox, nautilus, gmrun etc), with a small amount of work. See [1] for details. Using the pre-defined emacs keybindings has the disadvantage that they override the normal (CUA), which is sometimes inconvenient (especially since AFAIK gtk doesn't allow you to use multiple-chord keybindings, so for example, C-x h is out). You can go around this by copying /usr/share/themes/Emacs/gtk-3.0/gtk-keys.css to (say) ~/.themes/my-new-theme/ and /usr/share/themes/Emacs/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc into your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and replacing all occurrences of <ctrl> with (say) <super> or <hyper>. For gtk-3 you then also need to run gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-key-theme "my-new-theme" [1] http://askubuntu.com/questions/124815/how-do-i-enable-emacs-keybindings-in-apps-such-as-google-chrome/233539#233539 http://askubuntu.com/questions/124815/how-do-i-enable-emacs-...