Emacs like keybindings

Posted on July 21, 2015

I like GNU Emacs and prefer to have Emacs like Keybindings in other applications, mainly Firefox. I found out that applications that use gtk (Firefox uses gtk) can be configured to have emacs like keybinding.

To do this, add the line gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs" in your gtk configuration file. This will partially implement Emacs keybindings in Firefox. Apart from that, there is a Firefox extension named Firemacs by which more Emacs keybindings can be made to work.