# Emacs Keybindings
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/emacs-keybindings/23620
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [2 Gennaio 2015, 11:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emacs-keybindings/23620 "2015-01-02T23:29:55Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@bitboxer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bitboxer)
#### Post date: [2 Gennaio 2015, 11:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emacs-keybindings/23620/1 "2015-01-02T23:29:55Z")
I really love using Discourse. It is really awesome to read a discussion on it. Sadly I have a little problem when joining a discussion. The editor overwrites the default emacs keybindings on my mac with own functionality. For example ^h creates a headline, ^b a bold text. I use the emacs keybindings to enter text because I don’t want to move my hand to the cursor keys.
Is it possible to disable those keybindings?
Ah and another problem with those overwrites: they somehow destroy the undo history. When I press them accidentally, I can’t undo it ☹ .
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [3 Gennaio 2015, 10:53am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emacs-keybindings/23620/2 "2015-01-03T10:53:08Z")
you would need a user script to disable it. no built in method
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### Author:  [@bitboxer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bitboxer)
#### Post date: [3 Gennaio 2015, 10:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emacs-keybindings/23620/3 "2015-01-03T10:57:47Z")
Would you consider to add this as an optional setting for the user?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [3 Gennaio 2015, 10:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emacs-keybindings/23620/4 "2015-01-03T10:59:45Z")
seems too edge casey for me … not sure if I support that
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### Author:  [@bitboxer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bitboxer)
#### Post date: [3 Gennaio 2015, 11:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emacs-keybindings/23620/5 "2015-01-03T11:01:47Z")
Can you pinpoint the location in the code that does this so that I can write a userscript for this?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [3 Gennaio 2015, 11:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emacs-keybindings/23620/6 "2015-01-03T11:05:48Z")
somewhere in the composer, don’t know the line off the top of my head.
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### Author:  [@bitboxer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/bitboxer)
#### Post date: [3 Gennaio 2015, 11:28am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emacs-keybindings/23620/7 "2015-01-03T11:28:20Z")
Found it. It’s in [MarkdownEditor.Editor.js#1228](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/blob/master/app/assets/javascripts/discourse/lib/Markdown.Editor.js#L1228).
But it still would be awesome if there was a setting to overwrite this within Discourse.
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### Author:  [@chapoi](https://meta.discourse.org/u/chapoi)
#### Post date: [4 Dicembre 2025, 11:33am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/emacs-keybindings/23620/8 "2025-12-04T11:33:26Z")