Is there any Emacs key bindings for Qt Creator? Much like how Visual Studio has 
it. Not perfect,
nor does it have to be. Actually, even Meta- (Alt-) works, doesn't conflict 
with keyboard
shortcuts for menus (I just press Alt, release, then hit any menu shortcuts I 
want).

I know Matthias Ettrich said in an email (subject "[Qt-creator] Vim and emacs 
key bindings", Thu
Oct 30 19:01:08 CET 2008) that Emacs key bindings may give RSI. However, I map 
the left Ctrl to
Caps-Lock key. No problems with that for years. (Yes, left Ctrl at original 
spot will give RSI in
10 mins of use.)

(Matthias: "though for me the culprit was probably rather emacs than the mouse")

Matthias also mentioned that: "For coding and navigating it's fairly nicely 
usable without
touching the mouse, with less key strokes than emacs."

I don't see how that is true for text editing. Probably very true for just 
about everything else
(compile/run, header/source view switching, etc).

Unless I'm missing something, I don't find any way in Qt Creator to move my 
mouse cursor (in
text-editing) without leaving my keyboard's "asdf;lkj" anchors.

All that said, I do see how we can use Emacs outside of Qt Creator to edit 
source files. However,
code completion wouldn't be built in. In Emacs, I lose every convenience that 
Qt Creator brings.

I'm not asking for complex Emacs functions. Just the "move up/down/left/right". 
The "move by
word". Page up/down. Etc. Incremental search if possible (that's my long-time 
life-partner,
sorry), forward/reverse. Mark-set for copying text. That's about it. Oh, 
Ctrl+x,s.

I'm willing to contribute here. How?
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