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Comment by bandrami

9 hours ago

I'm pretty sure the navigation shortcuts date back to when Emacs was literally just a set of TECO macros, and GNU Readline adopted them

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kstrauser  5 hours ago

Yep. Readline’s modeled after what Emacs was already doing.

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