Here at Irreal and in many other venues, you hear a lot about staying in Emacs. The hardcore among us treat having to leave Emacs as a fail. To outsiders, it can seem a little obsessive but it all goes back to having a uniform interface for dealing with text.
Here’s a delightful meme that expresses that impulse. As usual, the comments are really interesting. For a bit of context—as one of the commenters explains—with CUA the Ctrl+a Ctrl+x Ctrl+s selects everything, deletes it, and saves the file; definitely not what you get from Emacs.
It’s astounding how many of the commenters say that they’ve fallen victim to the same sort of thing. Others complain of deleting browser tabs with Ctrl+w. One said that he had moved even browsing into Emacs despite its being suboptimal. At least the key bindings do what you expect them to.
There’s nothing really profound in the post but it is amusing and, as I said, the comments are interesting. They show that those of us who would prefer to stay in Emacs are not alone.