Linux Chromium: Enable Emacs Style Key Bindings

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I'm running Chromium on Linux (Without Gnome) and I'm trying to figure out how to enable emacs style keybindings. For example, if I'm editing text in a text area, I want CTRL–a to move the cursor to the beginning of the line, and CTRL–e to move to the end. Right now, CTRL–a selects all the text, and CTRL–e tries to do a google search.

I've tried the suggestions from Jeff Kaufman, Tibor's Musings, but nothing has worked. Does anyone know how to enable emacs style key bindings in Chromium on Linux?

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I think I found the answer here. It looks like chromium just switched to gtk3 in version 59, so the key theme had to be set in the gtk3 config instead of the gtk2 config as before.

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Linux – Ctrl-e and Ctrl-a not working on Ubuntu Hardy

Just a thought, but try entering this and retrying the commands:

set -o emacs

If that works, put the setting in your ~/.bashrc file to load it automatically.

If you prefer vi(m), you can do this:

set -o vi

Note, however, that the vi-bindings aren't nearly as complete as the emacs ones.

Linux – Windows-style, terminal based, text editor for linux

Have a look at the Sanos editor:

http://www.jbox.dk/sanos/editor.htm

Only a 28k binary can do what all those other editors try to -- and fail.

It does exactly what the OP asked for:

Shift+arrows to highlight text

Ctrl-X,C,V for cut/copy/paste

You can also have several open files simultaneously, and "pipe" commands into it. For example, press Ctrl-P and at the prompt enter:

cat yourfile

and it will insert yourfile at the position of the cursor. This way the full power of the bash commands are at your disposal ( use grep to get only specific parts of the file inserted ).

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