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I don’t know them all, no. But it would be absolutely ridiculous to force a new user to try to design a set of key bindings for even the hundreds that I do use. Nobody can predict ahead of time which ones the user will learn over the years that they use an editor, or even which combinations of features they will enable.


So don't force them to.

And don't force them not to, either.




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