Q:

Why don't emacs keybindings work on Mint 17.1?

I'm migrating from Ubuntu to Mint and loving it so far.
One thing has been bugging me. On ubuntu I was able to run:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-key-theme "Emacs"

to get system-wide emacs keybindings, but this doesn't seem to work on Cinnamon.
I also tried changing the setting using the gnome3-tweak-tool, but that doesn't seem to work either. I've confirmed that the setting has stuck and even tried logging out/back in.
There are only really a couple of shortcuts I care about - CTRL-A to go to the beginning of the line. CTRL-K to kill the line, and CTRL-E to go to the end of the line, CTRL-D to delete a character.
Any ideas? If I can make those shortcuts individually that would be fine too.

A:

So this is only sort-of supported in Mint. I eventually found out that you can use this:
gsettings set org.cinnamon.desktop.interface gtk-key-theme 'Emacs'

Although Emacs keybindings don't work in a lot of cinnamon apps (like the file browser for example), they do work in Chrome and the text editor.
See the thread on github for more information:
https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/issues/3816

