No, you're right. Emacs default keybindings and especially the longer 'chords' for frequently used commands are horrible. I've never used the defaults[1] for l

No, you're right. Emacs default keybindings and especially the longer 'chords' for frequently used commands are horrible. I've never used the defaults[1] for long. First by making my own custom keybindings, then by making keybindings compatible to what most others applications use and a couple of years ago by switching to evil-mode. I already had vi/Vim experience so that was pretty optimal. [1] Except some really basic ones that I also use in the shell: C-a, C-e, C-r, etc.