Emacs Keys All the Time

I do a lot of programming so I’m very accustom to my emacs shortcut keys (C-e, C-a, C-f, C-b). One of the coolest features of Mac OS X is that they have those emacs keys enabled by default but Linux does not!

I’ve found a way to have this feature on Linux as well:

  1. Edit your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file.
  2. Add include "/usr/share/themes/Emacs/gtk-2.0-key/gtkrc" to the file.

Now, whatever GTK+ application you start should have the emacs navigation keys! This unfortunately gets overwritten by the application’s shortcut keys and I’m looking for a way to make the emacs keys have the highest priority.

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