[happysadpanda2]

Aren't they actually readline keystrokes, and emacs is "readline-aware"?

[bandrami]

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

[kstrauser]

Yep. Readline’s modeled after what Emacs was already doing.

[anitil]

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