I didn’t want to figure out how to clone its repo, how to setup a development environment, how to configure the build, what kinds of builds there are, and how to integrate all of this with my operating system. I didn’t want to get involved in Firefox’s build drama, though. I want to go down, you donut! And you won’t stop me anymore! FREEDOMMM! I had accidentally opened a new window for the last time. Everything else did it right except Firefox. It was even worse because I could move in every other direction and it all felt natural, but if I made the mistake of going down, the software would react in the wrong way. I often wanted to move the cursor down three or four rows and would accidentally open up three or four new windows. Many extensions cannot do what they once did and the easy fix was gone. The world, however, marches on and so does Firefox. You could download extensions that would let you configure Firefox’s keyboard shorcuts, including disable some of them. Up until Firefox 56 there was an easy workaround. Imagine software reacting so at odds to your habituation. For those accostumed to using arrow keys, imagine if every time you pressed the down arrow Firefox would open a new window. If I want to move a cursor down, I have to instead perform a very unnatural-feeling motion of moving my right hand to the arrow keys and hit the arrow down button. This is probably okay for people who don’t have the intersectionality of Emacs keybindings everywhere and Firefox. Firefox binds C-n (or as most people would call it, “ctrl-n”) to new window.
That means I can use Emacs keybindings in Firefox.Īh, but there’s a rub. I’m becoming a minority in another way: I use Firefox. I have a consistent interface across the software that matters to me. Being used to Emacs keys has paid off for me. They also work in anything that uses readline or readline-like input, like bash, python, or psql (postgresql’s default CLI client). I’m so gung-ho about Emacs keybindings that I made them the default keybinding of GTK+, which means that any application that uses GTK+ will respect Emacs keybindings for motion. These are my friends: C-p C-n C-f C-b C-a C-e C-k down up left right start end kill.
A lot of new Emacs users seem to insist on jamming vim keys into Emacs, but not me. But I get the impression that even amongst Emacs users, I’m in the minority in another way: I use the default keybindings.
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