I was fiddling around with GNOME’s settings the other day and I found a really awesome setting in GNOME Tweaks: Emacs Input. It doesn’t look like much, but checking this box has wide-ranging effects on the keybindings used to edit text across every GTK app that I use. So things like Chromium, Terminal, etc. all can be used with Emacs keybindings for jumping around and editing text. This is super useful to me in the web browser because there are TONS of places where I’m editing text: forums, Reddit, and even this article that I’m editing right now. All of them now have the text navigation I’m used to that was exclusively relegated to programming!
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