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GNU Nano gains optional modern keybindings – OSnews (www.osnews.com)

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I almost feel like this a somewhat pointless feature. It's almost easier to just learn the default ones as opposed to adding "-modernbindings" or creating an "enano" variant/copy.

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[–] grue 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

If Emacs keybindings are good enough to be the system default for Mac users, they should be good enough for anybody.

[–] RavuAlHemio 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Given that Mac keybindings for “common special functions” (Open/Save/Cut/Copy/Paste/Find/etc.) use Command instead of Ctrl, leaving Ctrl effectively unused unless in combination with Command, this argument doesn’t hold much water.

Sure, some Emacs fan at Apple decided to add Emacs shortcuts to Cocoa controls, but that was a pretty arbitrary decision since people coming from Mac OS 9 didn’t use the Ctrl key, well, ever.