Rob Pike, one of the gods of UNIX, wrote a wonderful paper about why the behavior Emacs exhibits is better, and why wanting the other behavior produces trouble.
https://www.usenix.org/legacy/event/usenix2000/general/full_papers/pikelex/pikelex_html/
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1·1 year agoThat’s not correct.
For a long while, when RMS had severe tendonitis in his hands and wrists, he had a succession of volunteers who typed for him, and he would literally say things to them like “C-f C-f C-k C-p C-a C-y” for hours on end while he worked. They were human voice recognition systems.