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I mostly agree, however it seems that a certain core of editor controls has managed to spread and become a commonly available default in various products. The
by foobarian 3y ago
I mostly agree, however it seems that a certain core of editor controls has managed to spread and become a commonly available default in various products. The emacs shortcuts in particular seem to be available any place there is a text editor box like in browsers, in web IDEs, mainstream IDEs like VSCode or IntelliJ etc etc and as such I think it makes good sense to learn those just as a matter of education.
- sproingie 3y agoEmacs keybindings are even baked into NSText, the basis of everything to do with text handling in macOS.
- hollerith 3y agoA bit of an exaggeration because VSCode (on macOS or any other OS) for example does not recognize any Emacs keybindings. Ditto textareas in Chrome and Firefox.
- SllX 3y agoThey’re associated with Emacs now but at least some of them seem to go back to TENEX: http://unix-kb.cat-v.org/ http://unix-kb.cat-v.org/