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Re:Ed(1) mastery is a must for a real Unix person by foobarian on Friday December 15, 2023 @12:20PM (#38656233)
I mostly agree, however it seems that a certain core of editor controls has managed to spread and become a commonly available default in various products. The emacs shortcuts in particular seem to be available any place there is a text editor box like in browsers, in web IDEs, mainstream IDEs like VSCode or IntelliJ etc etc and as such I think it makes good sense to learn those just as a matter of education.
Re:Ed(1) mastery is a must for a real Unix person by SllX on Friday December 15, 2023 @12:25PM (#38656306)
They’re associated with Emacs now but at least some of them seem to go back to TENEX: http://unix-kb.cat-v.org/
Re:Ed(1) mastery is a must for a real Unix person by sproingie on Friday December 15, 2023 @12:23PM (#38656266)
Emacs keybindings are even baked into NSText, the basis of everything to do with text handling in macOS.
Re:Ed(1) mastery is a must for a real Unix person by hollerith on Saturday December 16, 2023 @11:28AM (#38665448)
A bit of an exaggeration because VSCode (on macOS or any other OS) for example does not recognize any Emacs keybindings.

Ditto textareas in Chrome and Firefox.