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Emacs bindings are not at all compatible with MS Windows.


You're right. I had misremembered thinking that the control keys often exposed in various GUI's were the same as the cmd ones. Which they are not:

http://ss64.com/nt/syntax-keyboard.html

Also, the original comment was on "console editors" and not on "command line editing", which is what I thought the subject was about. Looks like I struck out on the whole comment.




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