There exist keyboards specifically designed for Emacs! https://keycapdiy.blogspot.com/2014/10/emacs-keyboard.html
(Tricky if you rebind keys though!)
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One interesting design choice in Emacs that I haven't seen in other editors: reserved shortcuts.
An Emacs extension shouldn't use F5 through F12, or Ctrl-c LETTER. This lets users configure their own shortcuts. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Key-Bindings.html
Does it exist elsewhere? I miss it in VS Code, where e.g. all the Fn keys are already assigned.
I'm not a fan of the mastodon web UI behaviour where moving down with cursor keys 'snaps' to the next toot.
Is it possible to disable this, so my cursor keys always move the page by a consistent visual amount?
I've poked in the settings and didn't see anything obvious.
Today I learnt that Emacs 28 shipped a context-menu-mode! https://oylenshpeegul.gitlab.io/blog/posts/20230129/
This seems quintessentially Emacs: deeply hackable, but building UI features in an order very different to the mainstream.