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Please never get rid of this

As a user of these key binding in both Emacs and macOS, it’d be worse than cutting off an arm if this went away




Or next-paragraph/last-paragraph movement.

Or all movement combined with prefixes. I regularly do

  C-u C-u C-p
to jump sixteen lines backwards. Or add another prefix and it's 64 lines.

Separately, macros, yea! Macros with regexes FTW! The counter you can use in macros - occasionally very useful! M-x occur! Dired which can search a whole directory tree of file contents for a regexp! So much more.

Only thing worse than emacs interface is not having emacs at all.


While it's nice that macOS has this out-of-the-box, you can make all the key-bindings to their macOS equivelants using Karabiner-Elements. If it did go away, we'd be fine.


easily 50% of my "loyalty" to Macs is these built in shortcuts alone.




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