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Its part of Cocoa, search for ~/Library/KeyBindings/DefaultKeyBinding.dict for more information and how to alter the behavior.


It's part of unix/linux, they all have emacs keybindings as default


You're probably thinking of readline[1] actually. At the least that's why bash supports emacs keybindings (though I am never sure if a feature is from the shell or the terminal emulator). I believe you can configure readline to have vim keybindings.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Readline


MarcScott asked about Mac OS and the unix subsystem isn't the part on Mac OS that provided the emacs bindings for the apps.




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