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Having emacs commands by default on native apps is a really nice detail. It's nearly impossible to do on Windows since there's already a bunch of shortcuts using control. On Linux it's definitely doable but you have to install a keyboard shortcuts app, get an emacs profile, etc.

If only reddit didn't use C-b to insert bold text, it'd make navigating in text boxes a lot easier.

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If firefox had a setting, maybe per-site, to prevent text boxes from "helpful" editing key overrides it would be wonderful.

I have to use a web application that uses CKEditor for text boxes.

And just like you - the most annoying thing in the world - j I get: control-b is bold instead of back one character (one of my most commonly used keystrokes)

The other annoying one is control-k pops up a link dialog.

I tried to figure out how to override or disable it, but never got very far.

On gnome, if you open Gnome Tweak Tool there's a keyboard theme setting, select "Emacs" and all GTK applications will use Emacs keyboard shortcuts. (Including M-b M-f, which is a differnt combo on macOS).

It's propbably a dconf setting but I haven't checked which one. It tends to avoid running into issues on <input type="text" /> boxes in Firefox. But not more advanced things like Google Docs or embedded text editors. (eg Rust playground)

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