I’m not referring to some definite standard, but to the conventions that have existed in most desktop apps, at least on Windows and Linux, ever since I first us

I’m not referring to some definite standard, but to the conventions that have existed in most desktop apps, at least on Windows and Linux, ever since I first used a computer. Wikipedia has a good list of them.[1] The list also shows Emacs and Vim for comparison, so it’s easy to see the deviation from the Windows/Linux conventions. When it comes to text editing specifically, at least these ones are deeply inscribed in my muscle memory, and I use them every day in a variety of applications: – Ctrl+C: copy selection to clipboard – Ctrl+V: paste from clipboard – Ctrl+X: cut selection to clipboard – Ctrl+Z: undo previous operation – Ctrl+Y: redo previous operation – Ctrl+A: select all – Ctrl+F: find – Del: delete char to the right of cursor – Ctrl+Del: delete word to the right of cursor – Ctrl+Backspace: delete word to the left of cursor – Home: go to start of line – End: go to end of line – Ctrl+Home: go to start of document – Ctrl+End: go to end of document – Ctrl+Left: go to previous word – Ctrl+Right: go to next word (And the Shift variations for selecting text regions, like Ctrl+Shift+Right for selecting the word right of the cursor.) I’m definitely not the fastest typer, but I feel these make my text editing a snappy process. Additionally, while not related to the editing itself, I appreciate these ones: – Ctrl+S: save document – Ctrl+Q: quit document [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_keyboard_shortcuts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_keyboard_shortcuts