It's happening! Emacs is being absorbed into my being

So I've been playing with Doom Emacs and Org+Roam taking notes at work. Today I'm in some video editing software, made a mistake and hit "jk", "u" to undo

I am constantly typing “jk” in every possible text editor.

Lol, I shouldn't probably let on that many of my files have ":w" here and there too - damned modal editing

I regularly try to use C-SPC to mark regions and M-w to copy text outside Emacs…

C-s and C-y are killing me in Firefox

I only found out about C-SPC yesterday - life changing

I wonder if there's a plugin, I tried Vim keys for MSWord once (an Autohotkey script I think)

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Yeah I recently switched to evil from vanilla and wow modal editing feels significantly more productive

For non-vimers, what does jk do? I know u is for undo.

Its bound to ESC on some configs, so that gets you into "normal" mode so you can "u" undo. Undo doesn't work while in insert mode (that I know of I'm a noob)

jk is a common alias for ESC in vi-like editors. It’s a quick way to get you back to normal mode with keys already under your fingers on home row.

Next-line and previous-line.

lol, resistance is futile

It's the other way around really: you are being absorbed into emacs. ;DDD

M-w with Cmd mapped to Meta on macOS is dangerous, because Cmd-W is close window there. I hit that on reflex all the time.

I"m a default user so Ctrl+n has led to many a random chrome window.

I am currently using StumpWM which can allow key transformations on the window manager level. I will play with it and get back to you later

This reason and this reason alone is the reason I don’t touch the Cmd key for mappings in emacs. It’s more comfortable but can be quite dangerous 😆 .

C-w gets me like this all the time in Windows (or Linux for that matter).

You're going to start missing it in every other app you use. I know I do, because, sadly, I can't use emacs everywhere.

Disabling the C-s shortcut to send mails in outlook is always my first order of business when I am unfortunate enough to work in Windows. C-s and C-w in Firefox are the bane of my existence

There is [tridactyl](https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl) with [emacs bindings](https://github.com/jumper047/tridactyl_emacs_config/blob/main/emacs_bindings). It is far from perfect, but it brings some resemblance of Emacs hotkeys in Firefox.

Changing modifier keys in firefox (FF) helped me. to do so: 1. enter settings list `about:config` 2. change `ui.key.accelKey` to value `18`, [then FF uses `alt` instead of `ctrl`](https://kb.mozillazine.org/Ui.key.generalAccessKey) `M-w` will now close tab instead of `C-w` 3. change `ui.key.chromeAccess` to value 6, [then FF uses `Ctrl+Alt` instead of `Alt` for sub functionality](https://kb.mozillazine.org/Ui.key.chromeAccess). E.g. toggling whole words in search dialog, now with `C-M-w` instead of `M-w`. This is necessary, because we are using `M-` already, see step 2. Ping: u/Gwaerondor u/lexa_ , maybe this helps you too.

The same with "jj" for me. In every text editor

To fix this, instead of "jk" then ":w", you can use "SPC f s" in normal mode in doom Emacs

Emacs is everything. We're all just macros.

[https://i.imgur.com/fQKDPxs.gif](https://i.imgur.com/fQKDPxs.gif)

"Long live the new flesh."

I just started a new job teaching web development at a prep school. The school requires the teachers to use the same IDE as the students, and their curriculum is very specific, so I have to use Brackets for the frontend course I teach, and PHPStorm for the backend course. PHPStorm already supports emacs keybindings, but the first thing I did on Brackets was find a plugin to enable emacs keybindings there.

> sadly, I can't use emacs everywhere. Sounds like you're not trying hard enough 😜

I regularly type :w RET when I'm in Microsoft Word... hahaha.

‘jk’ means just kidding in vim.

Evil user here, sometimes I send :wq or ZZ when chatting

That's useful to know, and the semantics work.

C-n in Firefox also helps me explode.

C-g, C-k, C-a, C-w - always hit those everywhere 🤣

Mmyeaah it’s kinda up and down what it means

When you think of it, there isn't really a point of hitting C-g outside of Emacs, but for some reason I still do...

You can configure evil so that undo works in insert mode! I don't have the snippet at hand, but I have it bound to C-u and the evil want fine undo option set to true.

Cool