&gt; GUI text editors<p>Emacs is a GUI text editor too, btw.<p>I can be wrong, but my impression was the opposite - all the new tutorials I saw recommended one or another starter pack with all the bells and whistles out of the box.<p>&gt;  while browsing the web and writing documents<p>I&#x27;m not sure if a proportion of users who write documents in a specialised software (like Word) is significant enough. And web browsing is largely clicking, no hot keys are used in general, so no habits to be picked up.<p>Another thing to consider is that now more and more users are coming from mobile platforms, without any desktop exposure whatsoever. For them, any desktop conventions are equally alien.