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Same here. It's the oldest continuously used piece of software for me. I tried it first on a Sun Unix workstation at the university around the late 90s. I've tr

by rdtsc 3y ago

Same here. It's the oldest continuously used piece of software for me. I tried it first on a Sun Unix workstation at the university around the late 90s. I've tried komodo, vscode, sublime, vi and many others and still use emacs. The funny thing I don't even know that many key combinations and use only a few customizations. I was pleasantly surprised when I was issued a mac at work that most of the basic editing commands on macos text widgets support emacs key bindings (ctrl+a/e/k/p/n).

krylon 3y ago
Those keybindings are one of the very few features of macOS I missed after going back to GNU/Linux. It's such a nice thought, especially with macOS using the command key for most, uh, commands - it doesn't impose any burden on non-emacs-users, but for those who are used to those keybindings, it's bliss.
- nextos 3y ago
  GTK used to support a similar thing up to version 2? One needed to enable it with: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-key-theme "Emacs" Sadly, I think support was removed. Part of the problem was that this and other themes were in conflict with preset bindings, e.g C-p for a print dialog.
  - mavit 3y ago
    It wasn't removed. These days, the setting is still exposed in GNOME Tweaks.
  - krylon 3y ago
    Yeah, on macOS it works well, because the Ctrl-based shortcuts don't get in the way of the regular keybindings.
- adr1an 3y ago
  Those are 'readline' keybindings actually, and available in many term, shells, repls... Sometimes, just a config away. See: https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/keyboard-shortcuts-every-command-line-hacker-should-know-about-gnu-readline https://www.masteringemacs.org/article/keyboard-shortcuts-ev...