X11 variants lack Ctrl+A Ctrl+E etc shortcuts

[andreineculau]

Some apps have builtin Emacs keybindings, but some don't.
For instance, with the new X11 keyboard, I can still Ctrl+A Ctrl+E in VSCode, iterm2, etc
but not in Google Chrome.

Would be great if there's a way to force-enable them on top of any keyboard,
otherwise maybe we need to create "emacs variants".

A list of all Ctrl+ keybindings: https://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/system-bindings.html

[andreineculau]

Karabiner Elements works, but can be too complex to get right.

[andreineculau]

I tried used ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict, but failed in Google Chrome (maybe it works in other apps).

• https://gist.github.com/zsimic/1367779
• https://gist.github.com/entombedvirus/247411
• https://github.com/fkchang/emacs-keybindings-in-osx/blob/master/DefaultKeybinding.dict
• https://github.com/ttscoff/KeyBindings
• https://github.com/hashrocket/dotmatrix/blob/master/custom/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict
• https://github.com/walter/additional-mac-os-x-emacs-key-bindings
• /System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.framework/Resources/StandardKeyBinding.dict
• http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/Site/KeyBindings/Emacs%20Opt%20Bindings.dict
• http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/cocoa-text.html
• http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/selectors.html