Being non-model, Emacs users probably have less dissonance when using text boxes, etc. And part of the appeal of macOS for me is that the UI toolkit uses an Em

Being non-model, Emacs users probably have less dissonance when using text boxes, etc. And part of the appeal of macOS for me is that the UI toolkit uses an Emacs-compatible set of shortcuts. So it's generally not a terrible experience, although without the meta key, you don't get a lot. In day-to-day textbox use, I miss: M-f/M-b/M-d/C-delete (word forward, word back, delete word forward, delete word back), and C-space/C-w/C-y (mark, cut, paste). I usually type them, realize they haven't worked, and shift over to the fallback strategy without too much annoyance. Strangely C-t (transpose) is the thing I miss most.