I'll add one small point towards grokking it: Emacs keybindings aren't just in Emacs. It really helps to feel fluid in Emacs if you're used to using the standar

I'll add one small point towards grokking it: Emacs keybindings aren't just in Emacs. It really helps to feel fluid in Emacs if you're used to using the standard navigation all the time, and it's baked in to so many applications it takes almost no configuration. All readline apps support[1] them, including bash[2] and many others emulate them. On MacOS, support for emacs keybindings is standard in Cocoa text views[3] and you can improve it quite easily[4]. [1]: https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/readline.html#SEC1 https://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/readline.html#SEC1 [2]: https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Readline-Interaction.html#Readline-Interaction https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/html_node/Readline-... [3]: https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/EventOverview/TextDefaultsBindings/TextDefaultsBindings.html https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Co... [4]: https://github.com/fkchang/emacs-keybindings-in-osx https://github.com/fkchang/emacs-keybindings-in-osx