> i expect terminal developers to keep keybindings to a minimum.

  > there isn't a single key binding that i need for gnome, except possibly copy and paste.

I mean I'm not trying to harp on your preferences, but I think you have unreasonable asks. I haven't used an emulator where you cannot change or remove those keybindings, so I think that solves your asks. But I think your asks are unreasonable because they don't match the requests of the majority of users. You're totally right that "sane defaults" are not going to be "sane" for everyone. But why isn't that fine? I mean that's why we have configs, right? So that we can make them our own? "Sane defaults" are just an attempt to minimize configuration by trying to match average demand, not try to match every person. I mean we all have dotfiles, right?

I'm just really lost in what you're asking for. You're asking that *defaults* match *your* needs, right?

Because it sounds like you're upset that keybindings exist so... disable them? Is there something you can't disable? I'm really lost here...

I don't think keybinding for moving tabs/splits is excessive

agreed.

You don't use new tab? New window? You physically click the tab to move tabs?

in gnome terminal i don't use tabs at all. i use tmux for that.

gnome has a number of keybindings, most of which start with shift-control, which is a rare combination not used elsewhere. in tmux all bindings start with a leader which is configurable, making it easy to stay away from other key combinations. wezterm can do that too. i am not the person you are originally responding to. i am happy if all keybindings can be changed with a single setting. i don't know if gnome terminal can do that, but it appears that gnome does exactly what we ask for: choose keybindings that don't get in the way.