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I'd rather C-s was save, and C-f was find, consistently across all applications rather than the nightmare world you're proposing (which, to be fair, we're halfway in already). Unless you're distinguishing between search and find (even then, I'd rather not have a shortcut for whatever search does).

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My problem with that is that it makes virtually zero sense to have a "save" option in the browser. Seriously, when is the only time that was what you wanted? :) Perhaps if it was remapped to "bookmark"? (C-d? Seriously?)

Though, I should say that it was a quick trip to firemacs to get the behavior I wanted.

Yeah, bookmarking makes some sense, and is probably more useful than saving the page itself which, I agree, is almost entirely useless. To be honest, if it comes to it, I'd rather have no mapping at all for a shortcut whose standard command is out-of-place for a given app, than overload a shortcut that has a single specific meaning in every other.

I've used save several times when I wanted some information on the web page to be accessible offline. Commonly: ticket information. Or, all the information on some table on Wikipedia.

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