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by dylangs1030 5305 days ago
To clarify this a bit for non-Emacs users (as I saw a comment), the tl;dr version is that jwz wants Mac to maintain the Emacs key bindings that essentially amount to a specialized set of copy, cut and paste functions in text editing.

This is not because Apple particularly sponsors Emacs, but because historically, Mac key bindings and Emacs key bindings were the same for those functions. So it's the same (roughly) as finding that Command-A, Command-C and Command-V no longer work the way they used to.

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Clarification of this for those interested in history: The original Mac did not have control keys; I guess NextStep had some Emacs bindings. When Mac OS and NextStep gave birth to Mac OS X, it was possible to keep both sets, as there could not be clashes. I am not sure those Emacs bindings 'officially' exist, though (the human interface guidelines mention the use of the control key for accessibility, but not for text editing)