Comment by eviks

> What happened is a worse design

But the reason it happened like this is precisely your principle I argued against where some shortcut got claimed first and blocked evolution! The way easy out is to rebind Ctrl+C as kill

> allowed the readline/emacs text cursor navigation to also carry over into the GUI

That's another set of dumb defaults that should've evolved years ago but got stuck (just like Ctrl+C)

> treat text anywhere the same

Great aspiration, but I don't see how it follows that you can't change the first-claimed shortcut?