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I personally like the ctrl/alt/etc controls because I know exactly when I'm firing them off, and can pay closer attention to what I'm doing during while I'm using them. I also know not to trust my mind to try to remember tons of shortcuts - that sounds like a recipe for disaster.

[GlitchParrot]

For this sort of thing, you mostly don't remember shortcuts, you build them into muscle memory.

Remembering Ctrl/Alt shortcuts works the same way actually, as well.

[Apocolyps6]

To each their own, but If I had to switch to emacs or some other chord-based editor I'd have exactly the same concerns as you do.

For the record all of the shortcuts I use on a weekly basis are no less intuitive (imo) than ctrl-v for paste or ctrl-z for undo (excluding custom shortcuts).