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by kstrauser 58 days ago
I use ^a to go to the beginning of a line and ^e to go to the end nearly everywhere. Many Emacs keystrokes are so pervasive that they're not often thought of as Emacs keystrokes.
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Aren't they actually readline keystrokes, and emacs is "readline-aware"?
I'm pretty sure the navigation shortcuts date back to when Emacs was literally just a set of TECO macros, and GNU Readline adopted them
Yep. Readline’s modeled after what Emacs was already doing.
Strangely enough I tried using vi mode for readline and hated it even though I use them constantly in vim. I just hated having to switch modes on my terminal