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I'm so used to emacs that sometimes, when I'm typing something in a textbox in firefox, I sometimes try and do C-p to move up a line. It is seriously annoying to have to cancel a print dialog box every time I try and move about my text. If it's not horrendously complicated, I'd like to have keybindings that emulate emacs inside textboxes in firefox...

Obviously, I wouldn't need all the keybindings, but movement, marking, killing and yanking would be useful.

Is this an insane request?

omacs
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Seamus
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Is this an insane request?

No! :-)

You can install the Firemacs addon to get emacs keybindings in Firefox:

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There's also a rather technical article on MozillaZine on how to enable Emacs-style key bindings for Firefox via GTK. Both work very well, but I recommend the extension since it's so easy to install.

Stefano Palazzo
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To set emacs keybinding for all GTK based applications execute the following:

# legacy
gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme Emacs --type string

# modern / e.g. 12.04
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-key-theme "Emacs"

See also Emacs Keybindings - Firefox

H.-Dirk Schmitt
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Another option is the "It's all text" add-on which allows you to edit textareas with your favorite editor. The add-on displays a small button labeld "edit" at the bottom of each textarea. When you press it, the editor you have configured (emacs) will be launched with a temporary file. When you save the file, its contents are transfered to the textarea. Really helpful for e. g. long wiki pages -- and you will have the complete, real emacs with all your customizations, not just an emulation of some of its keybindings.

omacs
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Another option might be Conkeror. Based on its Wikipedia entry, "Conkeror is a Mozilla-based web browser designed to be navigated primarily by a computer keyboard. Its design is mainly patterned after the text editor GNU Emacs, with some influence from other programs, including vi."

I haven't actually used it so I can't recommend its quality, I've only heard of it. Might be something to check out though.

Daniel Neel
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If you are interested in having emacs keybindings everywhere in Gnome 3.x, you could change a few properties with gconf-editor, do a few hacks as listed in http://www.c0le.org/2011/10/emacs-keybindings-in-gnome-evolution-3x.html to get it done. Even I find myself pressing C-a and C-e in a lot of non-emacs applications

Guruprasad
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