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One of the reasons that I've never switched from Safari to Firefox is that Firefox, unlike any well-written application, uses its own homebrewed text entry fields, rather than the ones that are native to the OS. The Mac OS text boxes are especially useful to me, since they duplicate the control-[abdefghknoptvwy] behavior I know and love from emacs. There's a lot missing from this emacs emulation though -- I want my meta commands! I want my kill ring!
After reading this post by euziere, I was googling around and I found this cool page that tells me how to get a lot of what I want! I don't have it all working yet, but there's been a lot of immediate improvement. And more importantly, now I have an idea how to get started, which is often the hardest part of figuring out how to get something working the way I want.
One thing that is clearly not going to happen though, is getting the back-and-forth undo behavior that is one of emacs's best features. There's a lot of stuff about emacs that's weird or arbitrary, but its undo feature is something that it got right in a clear and final way. Why does nothing else do this? It wouldn't even be particularly visible to most users. Oh well.
After reading this post by euziere, I was googling around and I found this cool page that tells me how to get a lot of what I want! I don't have it all working yet, but there's been a lot of immediate improvement. And more importantly, now I have an idea how to get started, which is often the hardest part of figuring out how to get something working the way I want.
One thing that is clearly not going to happen though, is getting the back-and-forth undo behavior that is one of emacs's best features. There's a lot of stuff about emacs that's weird or arbitrary, but its undo feature is something that it got right in a clear and final way. Why does nothing else do this? It wouldn't even be particularly visible to most users. Oh well.